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T Minus 7 Days: Tsunami Warning Issued; NM R's Head To Lifeboats
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| Last Edited | DFWDem Oct 28, 2008 11:37am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 05:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Tsunami warning has been issued and the captain has given the order. It's every man for himself. With just one week before Election Day, experts across the board say a repudiation of historic proportions of the Bush presidency and the New Mexico Republican Party seems unavoidable. Public and private polling here reveals the tsunami wave that is already splashing onto the early voting. It will now be a major upset if any Republican is elected to the United States Congress from this state in 2008. That would mean one party control of the state's five member D.C. delegation for the first time since the state added its third US House seat in 1983.
The US Senate seat which Pete Domenici reclaimed for the R's in 1972 is now days away from switching back to the D's. Insider polling indicates Tom Udall will lead the ticket, giving the Democrats New Mexico's two US Senate seats for the first time since 1972 when they were held by Clinton Anderson and Joe Montoya.
The NM state Senate, with a make-up today of 24 Democrats and 18 Republicans, is now forecast to go even more blue, with Democratic and independent polling showing GOP Senators Snyder and Rawson especially imperiled. At least two other R seats are thought to be at risk. The state House seems more stable, but it is already colored deep blue with 42 Dems and only 28 Republicans.
What you're seeing is not your father's Democratic Party. There is a ferociousness beneath the surface that is reminiscent of 1994 when R's regained the Congress after decades of being squished by the Democratic thumb. The R's wanted their revenge then and today the Dems want theirs.
Another sign of a possible landslide in the making was seen when John McCain appeared Saturday morning in ABQ. Few, if any state Republican candidates showed up. ABQ GOP US House candidate Darren White, who stayed away from McCain's Oct. 6 ABQ visit, did give a speech at this one, but was long gone by the time McCain took the stage. |
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