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Race in Southern NM may be closest in U.S. Associated Press Republican Steve Pearce and Democrat John Arthur Smith remain in a tight race in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District with three weeks left to campaign, according to a new poll. And in the 1st District, Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., has a substantial lead over Democratic challenger Richard Romero, the Albuquerque Journal reported in a copyright story on Sunday. The 2nd District contest in Southern New Mexico is one of a handful of races nationwide that could decide which party controls the narrowly divided House of Representatives, where Republicans now...

Wilson Leads Romero by 16% in 1st District By Loie Fecteau Copyright © 2002 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Politics Writer Incumbent Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., has a strong lead over Democratic challenger Richard Romero in the Albuquerque-based 1st Congressional District, according to a Journal poll. Wilson, a former National Security Council aide and state Cabinet secretary, who was first elected in a 1998 special election and re-elected twice since then, was favored by 53 percent of voters surveyed. Romero, a former Albuquerque Public Schools administrator and the current president pro tem of the state Senate, was backed by 37 percent. Ten...