U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman was re-elected to his fifth term yesterday, winning 70 percent of the vote and taking all 33 New Mexico counties.
Now seriously, how many of you outside of New Mexico could even have named our junior senator? (Yeah junior; the senior senator, Pete Domenici, has been in the Senate since 1973, Bingaman only since 1983.)
Our governor, Bill Richardson, was re-elected with 68% of the vote. He may have lost one county. The joke was Bill Richardson was the Democratic candidate and the Republican candidate was someone “who isn’t Bill Richardson.”
The local house district is too close to call and a recount is inevitable — and after all that negative advertising.
I live outside of NM now but while I lived in NM (born and raised), I voted everytime for Bingaman. He is my favorite NM senator. Still come back and see family and enjoy every minute I get to spend in NM.