I was shocked to see that Susana Martinez got 46% and Pete Domenici, Jr. got under 10%. It is now more likely than not that Nevada and New Mexico—two states with high Hispanic populations that voted narrowly for President Bush in 2004 but voted comfortably for Obama in 2008—will elect a Hispanic conservative Republican to the governorship. Throw in Marco Rubio being elected to the Senate from Florida (another Bush-to-Obama state with a high Hispanic population) and we could be witnessing not just a correction back to the norm in states that irrationally voted for Obama, but a historic embrace of Hispanic conservative Republicans by Anglo Republicans that could lead to increasing numbers of Hispanic conservatives joining the GOP.
Martinez has a tougher road than Sandoval who looks like the clear frontrunner in the both the primary and general election.
BTW here are the results for LT Governor. John Sanchez placed third in his comeback bid but he’s over 20% so he’s on the ballot without needing more signatures.
• Brian Moore: 41.24 percent
• Kent Cravens: 27.64 percent
• John Sanchez: 22.81 percent
• J.R. Damron: 8.29 percent
For Land Commissioner, the only currently GOP statewide office where the incumbent (Pat Lyons, any Senate potential for him?) is term limited Farmer Matt Rush won big
• Matt Rush: 64.87 percent
• James Jackson: 18.03 percent
•Spiro Vassilopoulos: 13.34 percent
• Bob Cornelius: 3.74 percent
Rat Ray Powell who formerly held the office is running again.
The other races appear to all be 1 on 1 versus Rat incumbents
http://newmexicoindependent.com/49304/the-gop-can-be-nm%E2%80%99s-majority-party-sanchez-says
There’s an article on Sanchez. He sounds a little full of himself (you’d have to be to run for Governor as freshman State Rep against a heavyweight rat) but I like what he has to say.