NM-03 Shocker: PPP: Lujan (D) only up six

[King]

Senator Tom Udalls old seat (about 60-70% Dem usually).  He won with almost 70% of the vote last time.

Lujan 49%
Mullins 43%

http://newmexicoindependent.com/63930/lujan-leads-mullins-49-43-daily-kosppp-poll-says

[King]

This might be the most fascinating CD in America. Hispanics who were here before the Pilgrims, Pueblo Native Americans who were here to greet the Hispanics, Nuke scientists up there in Los Alamos,  hippies and Hollywood hangers' on and spaced out trust fund babies in Taos, Latte liberals in Santa Fe, artsy, gay, and green, and galleries and restaurants operators and the like worried about the anemic state of the high end tourist industry, and not interested in class warfare, and then "Little Texas" which votes like those parts of west Texas with oil or cattle, or both.

It's a little taste of the America that the Tea Party hopes to do away with.

[King]

This might be the most fascinating CD in America. Hispanics who were here before the Pilgrims, Pueblo Native Americans who were here to greet the Hispanics, Nuke scientists up there in Los Alamos,  hippies and Hollywood hangers' on and spaced out trust fund babies in Taos, Latte liberals in Santa Fe, artsy, gay, and green, and galleries and restaurants operators and the like worried about the anemic state of the high end tourist industry, and not interested in class warfare, and then "Little Texas" which votes like those parts of west Texas with oil or cattle, or both.

It's a little taste of the America that the Tea Party hopes to do away with.

Uh, what? What are you even claiming that the "Tea Party hopes to do away with" here?

I don't define Tea Party by the 25% of them who like Ron Paul like you do, Libertas.  I define them by the 75% who miss George W. Bush.

[King]

It's not a 70% Democratic district. Lujan got 57% in 2008, thanks in part to a strong indy showing that it's sort of hard to say whether the challenge came from the left, the right, or just the white. (Left of the Republicans though, that much is for sure.)

The independent challenger was Carol Miller, a perennial Green Party candidate in the state and well known Santa Fe "environmental and public health activist."  It came from the left and white.  White and right voted for East.