CLEARLY VIDEO: Election Day Interviews
Today is Election Day and at Clearly New Mexico we set out to see what was going on in the community and at the polling sites. Check out the video I just put together of interviews that Tracy Dingmann...
View ArticleMy sentiments exactly
This pretty much sums it up. Couldn’t put it better, so I won’t even try. The monster years Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also,...
View ArticlePutting this election to bed
The biggest, best-informed and most-representative electorate in American history made its choice yesterday, electing the nation’s first ever African American president by a decisive margin. I spent...
View ArticleTime to get to work
As passion for the election – on both sides of the aisle – turns into the more difficult and less sexy day-to-day chore of governance and fixing real problems, regular columnist Paul Krugman and guest...
View ArticleTwo Roads to 2008: Miguel and the Boogie Man
Millions of words are being written about the significance of Barack Obama’s victory last week – the emergence of a new majority coalition, the fundamental redrawing of the electoral map, the...
View ArticleObama’s Latino Mandate
Steve Cobble and Joe Velasquez, no strangers to New Mexico politics, analyze the historic impact of the Hispanic vote in the 2008 election. (link)
View ArticleOne More Election Retrospective: Winners and Losers Watch
The countdown has begun. It’s 60 days till the Obama Inauguration AND the opening gavel of the 2009 legislative session. What are we to make of the altered political landscape left in the wake of...
View ArticleThe people spoke, but will legislators listen?
In poll after poll prior to November 4th, New Mexican voters voiced their desire for change – not just generic change for change’s sake, but real change in the economy, real change in health care, real...
View ArticleGive Thanks VIDEO
On this Inauguration Day we give thanks that the tide is turning in our Nation. It is also a day to remember our ancestors and the leaders who paved the way for us. A few months ago we produced a video...
View ArticleSupport for Voter ID Waning?
By Tracy Dingmann There’s a drumbeat of hysteria from those who think New Mexico desperately needs to force voters to show photo identification at the polls – and supporters of the idea think they...
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