Last night, and into this morning, I was reminded of the 2000 Presidential election.  As New Mexico was called for Gore, retracted, called for Bush, retracted, and sat in the undecided column, a friend asked what the hell was happening in New Mexico.
I had left the state party just over a year earlier and was [...]

Patricia Madrid and Heather Wilson squared off last night in a one-hour debate hosted by the NBC affiliate in Albuquerque.  Patricia, three points up in the polls, just had to avoid saying anything stupid.  Unfortunately, she couldn’t make it through the hour without doing so.
Asked a question about large donations from lobbyists, she defended the [...]

Campaigns in New Mexico are generally won or lost by the GOP in absentee/early voting.  A significant portion of our GOTV budget was always aimed at turning in as many votes as early as we could.  The pachyderms are so successful in beating Democrats through absentee balloting that the legislature, almost every year, revamps the absentee [...]

One of the closely watched races in the House is New Mexico-01 (Heather Wilson’s seat).  Some new numbers out in the Albuquerque Journal’s poll there show the race very close. 
While Wilson is currently leading the Democrat by 3 points, that’s not much.  Still, the district is always close, so it’s not a great surprise.  There’s also a [...]

A colleague and I were talking this morning and he said something I am beginning to believe wholeheartedly.  His exact quote was, “I firmly believe the election of 2006 will go down in political history as the single greatest squandered opportunity any political party has ever achieved. 
More and more, I am assured of our chances [...]