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New Mexico

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New Mexico is one of several states drawn from territory annexed to the United States after the Mexican-American War in 1848. It was organized as a territory with Arizona and part of Colorado in 1850. It was raided by Pancho Villa in 1912, which was also the year it was made the 47th state.

New Mexico is home to Los Alamos where the nuclear bomb was invented and was also first tested in 1945. Roswell, New Mexico is famous the world over for the disputed story of a crashlanding of an extraterrestrial alien spacecraft on the Foster Ranch 75 miles north of the town.

The Democratic Party generally dominates state politics, and as of 2004 50% of voters were registered Democrats, 33% were registered Republicans, and 17% did not affiliate with either of the two major parties.

Since statehood in 1912, New Mexico has given its electoral votes to all but two Presidential election winners. New Mexicans gave their electoral votes to Republican President Gerald Ford over Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter in 1976, and Democratic Vice President Al Gore over Texas Governor George W. Bush (by just 366 popular votes) in 2000. In the three presidential elections prior to 2004, New Mexico supported Democrats in 1992, 1996, and 2000. New Mexico was one of only two states to support Al Gore in 2000 and George Bush in 2004 (the other state was Iowa).

In 2004, George W. Bush narrowly won the state's electoral votes by a margin of 0.8 percentage points with 49.8% of the vote. Democrat John Kerry won in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, two northwestern Indian counties, and by large margins in the six predominately Hispano/Spanish counties of Northern New Mexico (Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Taos, Mora, San Miguel, and Guadalupe). [1]

Contents 1 New Mexico Congressional Delegation 2 State Government 3 Other Political Elites 4 New Mexico Counties 5 New Mexico Cities 6 Elections 7 Democratic Party of New Mexico 8 Progressive resources 9 News, Etc 10 Political Blogs 11 See also

New Mexico Congressional Delegation

• Senate
  • Senior Senator: Jeff Bingaman (D)
  • Junior Senator: Tom Udall (D)

• House of Representatives
  • NM-01 Rep.: Martin Heinrich (D)
  • NM-02 Rep.: Stevan Pearce (R)
  • NM-03 Rep.: Ben Lujan (D)

• US Congressional Delegations from New Mexico (Wikipedia)

State Government

• Executive Branch
  • Governor: Susana Martinez (R)
  • Past Governors of the State of New Mexico
  • Lt.Gov: John Sanchez (R)
  • Secretary of State: Dianna Duran (R)
  • Treasurer : James Lewis (D)
  • Attorney General: Gary King (D)
  • Auditor: Hector Balderas (D)
  • Commissioner of Public Lands: Ray Powell (D)

• Legislative Branch
  • New Mexico State Legislature

• Judicial Branch
  • New Mexico Judiciary
  • New Mexico Supreme Court (State of New Mexico)
  • Other Courts (State of New Mexico)

• State Constitution
  • New Mexico State Constitution

Other Political Elites

• Allen Weh
• Joni Marie Gutierrez

New Mexico Counties

• New Mexico Counties (State of New Mexico]
• New Mexico County Selection Map (U.S. Census)

New Mexico Cities

• Alamogordo
• Albuquerque
• Artesia, New Mexico
• Aztec
• Carlsbad, New Mexico
• Clovis, New Mexico
• Espanola
• Farmington, New Mexico
• Gallup, New Mexico
• Hobbs, New Mexico
• Las Cruces
• Lovington
• Portales
• Rio Rancho
• Ruidoso Downs
• Santa Fe
• Truth Or Consequences
• Tucumcari

Elections

• New Mexico Secretary of State: elections page
• New Mexico Fraud, 2004 elections
• New Mexico election results
• see U.S. elections

Democratic Party of New Mexico

• Democratic Party of New Mexico

Progressive resources

• Irregular States: New Mexico

News, Etc

• New Mexico Newspapers (NewsLink.org)
• New Mexico Newspapers and News Media Guide(ABYZ News Links)
• New Mexico Politicians On The Issues (OnTheIssues.org)
• League of Women Voters of New Mexico
• New Mexico Political News (US Politics Today)
• Gayapolis: Issues Guide for New Mexico (Gayapolis.com)

Political Blogs

• 505 Dollars and Cents
• 505Stop: NM News, Sports, Information
• ABQ Journal Watch
• Clearly New Mexico
• Cocoposts
• Daily Kos: New Mexico
• Democracy for New Mexico
• Duke City Fix
• El Grito: News and Views from NM's Grassroots
• Embracing the North (Raton)
• Environmental News for New Mexicans (Laura Paskus)
• FarrFeed (Taos)
• Fat Bill and Me
• Female New Mexican's Political Point of View
• Freedom Forum (ACLU NM)
• Green Chile Chatter (Kate Nash)
• Green Fire Times (Santa Fe)
• Heath Haussamen (Las Cruces)
• Jfleck at Inkstain
• Jornado del Muerto: Life in New Mexico and other attractions
• Just New Mexico
• Live From Silver City
• m-pyre
• Mario Burgos
• mjh's Blog
• New Mexico Independent
• New Mexico Youth Voices | Youth Radio
• NM FBIHOP (A Community Blog)
• Only in New Mexico (Jim Baca)
• NewMexiKen
• New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan
• Roundhouse Roundup: The Blog (Steve Terrell)
• Santa Fe Tribune
• Senator Dede Feldman's Blog
• Santa Fe Reporter Blogs
• Sheriff Greg Solano Blog (Santa Fe)
• Southwest Reporter: Laura Paskus
• The Blue Voice (At least one of them is in NM)
• The Plutonium Café (Page van der Linden)
• The Zees Go West
• Uncommontaries (Santa Fe)
• What Do I Know? (NM's Most Distinguished Blogger Abroad)
• What's the Word?
• What's Wrong With This Picture? (M.G. Bralley)
• ©Sindication

See also

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