by Cheryl Rofer
New Mexico has only five electoral votes, but its vote in the last two presidential elections has been close, and it has one senatorial and three congressional seats fully up for grabs this year. All three of our sitting representatives decided to go for broke in the primaries, so only Tom Udall (D) is left standing for the Senate seat, and all the candidates for the congressional seats are newbies.
So we're getting more attention than usual from the national media.
The News Hour has been featuring New Mexico all this week.
The Los Angeles Times looks at our undecided Latino voters.
Slate checks out the small towns.