NM-01: Poll: Democrats May Flip Elusive New Mexico Seat
From the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call (sub. req'd):
Poll: Democrats May Flip Elusive New Mexico Seat
To House Democrats, New Mexico's 1st district has been like Moby Dick to Ahab. Democrats have spent 40 years trying to wrest the Albuquerque-based seat - a perpetual swing district on the presidential level - from the Republicans' hands.
But a new poll conducted exclusively for Roll Call suggests that 2008 may finally be the Democrats' year. In the race to replace retiring Rep. Heather Wilson (R), former Albuquerque City Councilor Martin Heinrich (D) led Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White (R), 51 percent to 46 percent.
