The tea party referendum has officially begun. Despite the success of tea party candidates all over the country in 2010, many top GOP Senate candidates have avoided the same kind of tough insider-outsider primary matchups that made the summer of 2010 so

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two candidates have dropped out of the race for New Mexico's open U.S. Senate seat, but candidates on both sides of the aisle will still face competitive primaries in June. Last week, Lt. Gov. John Sanchez announced his plans to pul

NATIONAL (ABC/Washington Post): Romney 38, Gingrich 24, Santorum 18, Paul 14 LOOKING AHEAD TO NOVEMBER: If "big picture" theme number one from this week was the political resurrection of Rick Santorum, theme one-A has been the continued strengthening of

• FL-07, FL-06: So GOP Rep. John Mica confirmed what had been a whole bunch of rather fragmentary reports and announced that he would indeed seek re-election in the redrawn 7th CD, setting up an incumbent-vs.-incumbent battle in the Republican primary wi

It's hers this time. After a long, long wait the Republican nomination for the United States Senate is about to go to former ABQ Congresswoman Heather Wilson. The official withdrawal from the race of Lt. Governor John Sanchez virtually guarantees Heather

With Lt. Gov. John Sanchez's decision to end his New Mexico Senate campaign Thursday, Heather Wilson's path to the GOP nomination just got that much smoother. While Sanchez's departure was his own call, Wilson's early and aggressive moves in shoring up s

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New Mexico Lt. Gov. John Sanchez (R) has dropped his Senate bid — welcome news to former Rep. Heather Wilson , his chief primary opponent. Sanchez was competing for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D). John A. Sanchez and his wife D

New Mexico Lt. Gov. John Sanchez is dropping out of the open-seat Senate race, leaving former Rep. Heather Wilson with just one opponent in the Republican primary. Sanchez said Thursday that a nasty primary with Wilson and conservative challenger Greg So

Sanchez says he is quitting the race to avoid a bitter campaign against former Congresswoman Heather Wilson in the Republican primary to succeed retiring Democrat Jeff Bingaman. In a statement issued Thursday morning, Sanchez said a divisive Republican P

WASHINGTON – Lt. Gov. John Sanchez is dropping out of the U.S. Senate race in New Mexico. The Republican will not seek election to New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District seat instead, as some Republicans had urged him to do. “Throughout the course of th

New Mexico Republican Lt. Gov. John Sanchez officially ended his Senate campaign on Thursday, a move that is a big boost for former GOP Rep. Heather Wilson's bid. "After much prayer, counsel with my family, and discussions with supporters, I have decided

To embed this post, copy the code below and paste into your website or blog. Mark Travis John Sanchez is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft as th

In the spirit of helping you offer a more informed analysis to your readership in the future… I was surprised by your analysis of the Nebraska race, dismissing our influence based on a dollar figure. The game’s changed—that’s not how it works any more. T

With the New York Giants winning the Super Bowl we can now focus on what's sure to be a very interesting 2012 offseason. A future Hall of Famer is likely to switch teams, the most talked about and talkative team in the league needs to figure some stuff o

Martin & Hector play nice Now that the R's seems to have settled their Senate nomination with John Sanchez apparently dead in the water, ready to exit and pave the way for Heather Wilson, attention shifts to the Dems and their potentially spirited Senate

7:31 AM PT: Jobs: I know that a lot of you like to discuss the monthly jobs numbers (and I'm sure you've already been at it this morning), since there's no doubt that the health of the economy plays a role in determining who wins at the ballot box. So on

On June 30, records show, Maldonado loaned his campaign $250,000. It boosted his cash on hand for the campaign period that ended the same day. On July 1, after the reporting period ended, the campaign paid him back.

The tentative Senate campaign of John Sanchez is apparently about to end all together. GOP sources say the Lt. Governor is preparing to exit the contest and while one of his consultants says he won't enter the GOP race for the ABQ House seat, Republican