Kerry won big in northern New Mexico; more than 70% of the vote in San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos counties; more than 60% in McKinley, Mora and Rio Arriba.
Bernalillo (Albuquerque) voted for Kerry 51-48.
The southeast and northwest corners (oil and gas lands) were decidedly for Bush.
The count is still not final, but Bush has a 7,425 vote lead (1%).
What’s intriguing to NewMexiKen is that Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron reported on Tuesday that 46 percent of the state’s registered voters had voted early or by absentee ballot. That would be 506,000 voters (out of 1.1 million).
As of tonight, the total vote count (for president) is 737,410.
That means that only 231,410 voted Tuesday (21%).
Considering all the problems New Mexicans, (especially Bernalillo County residents)were having with their ballot machines, I’m surprised there were even that many votes for Kerry. I wonder what the real numbers would have been with machines that worked right.