Why Romney Will Win

Mr. President?
From the Weekly Standard - By FRED BARNES - Mitt Romney will win. The tie in the polls goes to the challenger. Here’s why:
Enthusiasm. It matters enormously, and it’s disproportionately on the Republican side, in good measure because of an intense desire to defeat President Obama. True, enthusiasm doesn’t guarantee an edge in turnout, but it’s certainly a key indicator. “In these final days, turnout is driven by intensity,” says Republican pollster Ed Goeas. The nearly half the electorate that strongly disapproves of Obama’s performance in office “will need little else other than the opportunity to vote against President Obama to motivate them to go to their polling place.” Goeas conducts the bipartisan Battleground Poll along with Democrat Celinda Lake. In 2008, self-identified Democrats led Republicans in turnout by seven percentage points. Gallup’s projection is that Republicans will have a 49-46 percent edge this year. “The political environment and the composition of the likely electorate strongly favor Governor Romney,” Goeas says. The Battleground Poll’s “vote election model” projects Romney with 51 percent.
Ground game. The Obama get-out-the-vote drive (GOTV) is not quite the powerful juggernaut it was in 2008 and the Republican effort is far better than four years ago. The Republican National Committee isn’t alone this time. Americans for Prosperity and a coalition of a dozen conservative groups—from the National Rifle Association to the Republican Jewish Coalition—have put together a massive GOTV effort focused on swing voters in key states. They’ve averaged 1.8 million phone calls per day in recent days.Early voting numbers are further evidence of ground game parity. Democrats have a slight edge, but their numbers are down significantly from 2008. Far more Republicans have voted early this year than in 2008.
Undecideds. Undecided voters are thought to vote disproportionately for the challenger over a sitting president. In truth, there’s no empirical evidence for this widely acknowledged tendency. But to the extent it exists, it helps Romney. Goeas, for one, figures most still undecided voters simply won’t vote.
Indicators. Many point to a Romney win. He does well among “high-propensity-voting” blocs such as, in the Battleground Poll, seniors (54 percent), married voters (56 percent), weekly church attendees (59 percent), white evangelicals (79 percent), and gun owner householders (60 percent). He also leads among key demographic groups such as suburban voters (54 percent), Catholics (53 percent), and middle class voters (52 percent). Obama has large leads among groups such as Hispanics with a lower propensity to vote. “If the president’s campaign is not able to replicate his 2008 electorate (which is looking increasingly unlikely), the president loses,” Goeas says.
Issues. The most important ones favor Romney: the economy, the deficit, and the debt. Independents, the demographic group most sensitive to these issues, went for Obama by eight percentage points in 2008. Now they’re tilting to Romney by roughly the same percentage.
Conclusion: Romney will be elected the 45th president of the United States. Read full column


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Abandoned wells prompt Carlsbad to take action
Giant Alamogordo pistachio makes movie debut
Alamogordo teacher acquitted in battery case
National Air Guard opens new recruiting office  






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Busting Open Energy's Den of Deception

Marita Noon
Marita Noon - Benghazi isn’t the only White House cover up being exposed through leaked emails. State Department staffers aren’t the only career officials being blamed for President Obama’s inexperience, questionable judgment, and obvious cover up. A similar saga has just been exposed in the latest chapter of the green-energy crony-corruption scandal. 
On October 30, The Daily Caller ran a feature titled: As many as fifty Obama backed green energy companies bankrupt or troubled. The piece cited the work Christine Lakatos and I did in our three-part “green-energy failures” series released in October. Immensely popular, the DC article was picked up by numerous sites, including Fox Nation and GOPUSA. That night, Newt Gingrich was on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Sustren. After discussing the incriminating Benghazi emails, he pointed to another possible “October surprise.”
Gingrich teased: “The other big story, I think, that is going to break, is on corruption and extraordinary waste in the solar-power grants and direct involvement by the Obama White House, including the President, in the solar-panel grants involving billions of dollars, and I suspect that’s going to break Wednesday and Thursday of this week.” Read More News New Mexico

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New drones at Holloman Air Force Base


New drones that officials say are quieter than an F-22 are filling the skies over Holloman Air Force Base. 
The base is ground zero for training on the new remotely-piloted aircraft, or RPA drones, which officials say cost less money than previous models and a whole lot safer for the men and women of the Air Force. 
The drones are unmanned, flown by pilots that never leave the ground. At Holloman, authorities say at least 670 student pilots are getting prepared.

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Abandoned wells prompt Carlsbad to take action

Officials in Carlsbad are still struggling to find and force the sealing of abandoned wells after the tragic death of 4-year-old Samuel Jones. Samuel fell into a well back in March and died from lack of air and cold temperatures. 

Investigators think the child climbed a fence or got through a gate into his neighbor's backyard then fell into the open hole.  

After Samuel’s death, public complaints over the situation prompted the city council to ask police and fire chiefs to cover up abandoned wells.  

But according to the Carlsbad Current Argus, officials say they can't do this alone and need the public's help in identifying these sites. 


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Giant Alamogordo pistachio makes film debut


A 30-foot pistachio monument on the side of the road in Alamogordo is being featured in a new movie out in theaters. 
Tim McGinn, of McGinn’s Pistachio Tree Ranch says the “world’s largest pistachio” that sits outside his tree ranch can add another accolade to its resume. 
The larger than life nut is featured in a scene of the movie, “This Must Be the Place,” which stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film was shot in and around Alamogordo.
 McGinn built the giant pistachio as a memorial to his father who passed away in 2007. He says he’s excited it was chosen to be part of the film.


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Tourism up in NM
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Billions of dollars needed to finish nuclear bomb project at Sandia Labs

The National Nuclear Security Administration, already under fire for billions of dollars of cost overruns, has underestimated by billions more how much it will cost to refurbish the nation’s stockpile of B61 nuclear bombs, according to an independent cost assessment commissioned by the agency. 
Already juggling its budget to cope with existing problems, the agency will likely need to come up with another $1 billion per year for the next few years if the project is to go ahead as currently envisioned. 
Among the biggest shortcomings is a significant underestimate of the amount of systems engineering work to be done at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque
Sandia has estimated it will need more than 600 people working on the project by 2014, but the independent assessment says that number probably is too low.


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Drug sting at UNM

An Albuquerque police undercover sting on the University of New Mexico campus has led to the arrested of five students and seven others.

One of the students was accused of selling drugs to an undercover officer and four others were arrested for allegedly trying to buy drugs from an officer.
 Court documents show Albuquerque police planned Thursday's undercover sting after receiving reports of students looking for drugs near a popular hangout. 
Student conduct officer Rob Burford says UNM could end up disciplining the students who were arrested. They could face a written reprimand up to expulsion.


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NM company seeks solar project in NC

A Santa Fe, N.M., company says it is asking the state government in North Carolina to approve plans for a large solar power generation project. 

Amenergy Inc. hopes to install more than 90,000 solar panels on six tracts of private land at the Ridgecrest Conference Center near Asheville. The plant will be capable of producing more than 21 megawatts of electricity for sale to regional power provider Progress Energy. 
Amenergy managing partner Bill Oglesby tells the Santa Fe New Mexican for a story in Sunday's editions that the project has been under development for about two years.

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Camping rules change at NM State Parks

Campers at New Mexico's state parks will face shorter limits on their stays at campsites under a rule change announced by Gov. Susana Martinez's administration. 
The state Parks Division says campers bill be able remain in a park for 14 consecutive days during any 20-day period starting in April 2013. Campers could go to another state park for six days and then return. 
Under current rules, campers are allowed a maximum stay of 21 consecutive days during a 28-day period. 
Parks Division Director Tommy Mutz said a 14-day limit will give weekend and short-term campers a reasonable opportunity to get park campsites.

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Tourism up in NM


New data from the Department of Tourism shows the number of domestic visitors to New Mexico rose by almost 5 percent from 2010 to 2011 and boosted the state's hospitality industry.  
Tourism Secretary Monique Jacobson says the state is attracting the "right people" who spent more last year than a year earlier. 
More than 31 million people visited New Mexico in 2011, compared with fewer than 30 million in 2010. 
That's the highest number since 2008.

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Racial divide worse under Obama

Star Parker
Townhall - The headline of a recent article by the Washington Post’s Peter Wallsten capsulizes, inadvertently, the supreme paradox of the Obama presidency. “Obama struggles to balance African America’s hopes with country’s as a whole,” it says.
The story documents Obama’s struggles over the last four years, which continue today, to avoid overplaying his hand as the first black president, yet to also not ignore this fact.
But nowhere does Wallsten note the irony that four years ago many understood the meaning of Obama’s election as the beginning of the end of the perception of black America as a world apart from the rest of America.
There was exhilaration that the nightmare was over – finally. That wrongs have been righted, that we can get on with America’s business without the ongoing issue of race looming, and that we can stop looking at blacks politically as a special class of Americans.
Yet here we are now at the end of four years of the presidency of this first black president and attitudes about race seem to have hardly changed at all. There is still the sense that black America and the rest of America are not on the same page and that blacks and the country “as a whole” have different needs and different agendas.
Wasn’t Obama’s election supposed to have changed all of this? Not only have racial tensions not improved, but the racial divide appears to have widened.
“Win or lose,” Wallsten continues, “the electorate that decides his fate November 6 will be far more racially divided than the one that propelled him into the history books.” Read full column here: News New Mexico
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