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2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico

← 2004 November 4, 2008 2012 →
 
Nominee Barack Obama John McCain
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Illinois Arizona
Running mate Joe Biden Sarah Palin
Electoral vote 5 0
Popular vote 472,422 346,832
Percentage 56.91% 41.78%

County Results

President before election

George W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

Barack Obama
Democratic

The 2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 2008. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

New Mexico was won by the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, by a 15.13% margin of victory; Obama took 56.91% of the vote while his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona, took 41.78%. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered it as a safe blue state. Due to the extremely narrow margins of victory in the previous two presidential elections (less than 1% in 2004 and less than 0.1% in 2000), it started out as a swing state, but hypothetical general election match-up polls taken in the state continued to show a big lead for Obama. Obama's polling advantage in New Mexico increased so much that McCain did not campaign nearly as much there as he did elsewhere, despite it neighboring his home state of Arizona.

A large Hispanic and Native American as well as a trending Democratic population put Obama over the top.[1] Obama became the first Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to win a majority of New Mexico’s vote in a presidential election.

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Primaries

Campaign

Predictions

There were 16 news organizations that made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:

Source Ranking
D.C. Political Report[2] Likely D (flip)
Cook Political Report[3] Lean D (flip)
The Takeaway[4] Solid D (flip)
Electoral-vote.com[5] Lean D (flip)
Washington Post[6] Lean D (flip)
Politico[7] Lean D (flip)
RealClearPolitics[8] Lean D (flip)
FiveThirtyEight[6] Solid D (flip)
CQ Politics[9] Safe D (flip)
The New York Times[10] Solid D (flip)
CNN[11] Lean D (flip)
NPR[6] Solid D (flip)
MSNBC[6] Lean D (flip)
Fox News[12] Likely D (flip)
Associated Press[13] Likely D (flip)
Rasmussen Reports[14] Safe D (flip)

Polling

Obama won a majority of the pre-election polls taken in the state, including sweeping all of them taken after September 14. The final three polls averaged the Democrat leading 55% to 43%.[15]

Fundraising

John McCain raised a total of $1,016,376 in the state. Barack Obama raised $3,987,438.[16]

Advertising and visits

Obama and his interest groups spent $4,535,378. McCain and his interest groups spent $3,606,796.[17] The Democratic ticket visited the state five times to the Republicans' eight times.[18]

Analysis

Hispanic voters comprised 41% of New Mexico's electorate in 2008[19] and make up a plurality of the state's population.[citation needed] George W. Bush received over 40% of the Hispanic vote nationally in 2004. This support was enough for Bush to nip John Kerry by approximately 6,000 votes in New Mexico in 2004. In the previous two elections, New Mexico had been a very close swing state. Al Gore won the state by 300 votes in 2000, which was even narrower than the controversial results in Florida. However, during the 2008 election, New Mexico was regarded as a safe state for Obama. John McCain from neighboring Arizona and held similar views on illegal immigration to those of Bush. Ultimately, McCain obtained 31% of the national Hispanic vote to Obama's 67%, far less than Bush's 44% to John Kerry's 53% in 2004.

Native Americans also represent a key voting demographic in New Mexico.[20] Obama won the Native American vote, 78–21%, and carried most of the counties within the confines of the Navajo Nation.[21] The Republican base in New Mexico consists of the more rural and thinly-populated southeastern part of the state. Democrats are strongest in the state capital, Santa Fe, and its close-in suburbs. The city of Albuquerque and the southwestern part of the state both lean Democratic, but not as overwhelmingly as Santa Fe.

In 2008, Obama carried the state by a 15-point margin, largely by dominating the Albuquerque area. He won Bernalillo County, home to Albuquerque itself, by 21 points; Kerry had won it by four points in 2004. While McCain dominated the southeastern part of the state, it was not nearly enough to overcome Obama's edge in the Albuquerque area.[22] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Luna County voted for the Democratic candidate.

During the same election, former Democratic U.S. Representative Tom Udall, who had represented New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, defeated former Republican U.S. Representative Steve Pearce, who had represented New Mexico's 2nd congressional district, for an open U.S. Senate seat that was vacated by Republican Pete Domenici once it was discovered that he had brain cancer. Former Republican U.S. Representative Heather Wilson, who represented New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, vacated her seat to challenge Pearce in the GOP senatorial primary only to lose the nomination to him. As a result, all three of New Mexico's U.S. House seats were up for grabs, and Democrats captured all three of them. At the state level, Democrats increased their majorities in both houses of the New Mexico Legislature, picking up three seats in both the New Mexico House of Representatives and New Mexico Senate.

Results

2008 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 472,422 56.91% +7.86
Republican 346,832 41.78% −8.06
Independent 5,327 0.64% +0.10
Libertarian 2,428 0.29% −0.02
Constitution
1,597 0.19% +0.09
Green 1,552 0.19% +0.03
Total votes 830,158 100.00%
Democratic win

By county

County Barack Obama
Democratic
John McCain
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Bernalillo 171,556 60.03% 110,521 38.67% 3,701 1.30% 61,035 21.36% 285,778
Catron 664 31.44% 1,398 66.19% 50 2.37% -734 -34.75% 2,112
Chaves 8,197 37.07% 13,651 61.74% 264 1.19% -5,454 -24.67% 22,112
Cibola 5,827 64.05% 3,131 34.42% 139 1.53% 2,696 29.63% 9,097
Colfax 3,490 54.67% 2,805 43.94% 89 1.39% 685 10.73% 6,384
Curry 4,670 32.35% 9,599 66.48% 169 1.17% -4,929 -34.13% 14,438
De Baca 359 34.39% 676 64.75% 9 0.86% -317 -30.36% 1,044
Dona Ana 40,282 58.14% 28,068 40.51% 930 1.35% 12,214 17.63% 69,280
Eddy 7,351 36.58% 12,500 62.21% 242 1.21% -5,149 -25.63% 20,093
Grant 8,142 59.19% 5,406 39.30% 207 1.51% 2,736 19.89% 13,755
Guadalupe 1,557 70.90% 620 28.23% 19 0.87% 937 42.67% 2,196
Harding 260 41.53% 358 57.19% 8 1.28% -98 -15.66% 626
Hidalgo 993 50.90% 936 47.98% 22 1.12% 57 2.92% 1,951
Lea 5,108 27.40% 13,347 71.58% 190 1.02% -8,239 -44.18% 18,645
Lincoln 3,535 36.46% 6,001 61.89% 160 1.65% -2,466 -25.43% 9,696
Los Alamos 5,824 52.62% 5,064 45.75% 181 1.63% 760 6.87% 11,069
Luna 4,311 51.69% 3,870 46.40% 159 1.91% 441 5.29% 8,340
McKinley 16,572 71.41% 6,382 27.50% 253 1.09% 10,190 43.91% 23,207
Mora 2,168 78.55% 569 20.62% 23 0.83% 1,599 57.93% 2,760
Otero 8,610 39.56% 12,806 58.83% 350 1.61% -4,196 -19.27% 21,766
Quay 1,547 38.71% 2,367 59.23% 82 2.06% -820 -20.52% 3,996
Rio Arriba 12,703 74.99% 4,086 24.12% 151 0.89% 8,617 50.87% 16,940
Roosevelt 2,303 34.27% 4,311 64.15% 106 1.58% -2,008 -29.88% 6,720
Sandoval 32,669 55.72% 25,193 42.97% 768 1.31% 7,476 12.75% 58,630
San Juan 18,028 38.76% 27,869 59.92% 614 1.32% -9,841 -21.16% 46,511
San Miguel 10,320 79.75% 2,478 19.15% 143 1.10% 7,842 60.60% 12,941
Santa Fe 55,567 76.94% 15,807 21.89% 849 1.17% 39,760 55.05% 72,223
Sierra 2,352 42.88% 3,017 55.00% 116 2.12% -665 -12.12% 5,485
Socorro 4,696 59.48% 3,032 38.40% 167 2.12% 1,664 21.08% 7,895
Taos 13,816 81.82% 2,866 16.97% 204 1.21% 10,950 64.85% 16,886
Torrance 3,087 44.47% 3,735 53.81% 119 1.72% -648 -9.34% 6,941
Union 492 28.24% 1,227 70.44% 23 1.32% -735 -42.20% 1,742
Valencia 15,366 53.17% 13,136 45.45% 397 1.38% 2,230 7.72% 28,899
Total 472,422 56.91% 346,832 41.78% 10,904 1.31% 125,590 15.13% 830,158
County Flips:

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

By congressional district

Barack Obama carried 2 of the state's 3 congressional districts, while John McCain just narrowly carried the other congressional district that simultaneously elected a Democrat.

District McCain Obama Representative
1st 39.64% 60.07% Heather Wilson (110th Congress)
Martin Heinrich (111th Congress)
2nd 49.97% 48.64% Steve Pearce (110th Congress)
Harry Teague (111th Congress)
3rd 37.79% 61.01% Tom Udall (110th Congress)
Ben R. Luján (111th Congress)

Electors

Officially the voters of New Mexico cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. New Mexico is allocated five electors because it has three congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of five electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all five electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them.[23] An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and of the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2008, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body; instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia meet in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All five were pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden:[24]

  1. Brian Colon
  2. Annadelle Sanchez
  3. Tom Buckner
  4. Christy French
  5. Alvin Warren

References

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  19. ^ "Latino Voters in the 2012 Election" (PDF). April 23, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  20. ^ "Paying Attention to the Native American Vote". PBS.
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