New Mexico is one of the Mountain West states that Senator Obama wants to wrest from the GOP. The last Rasmussen Reports poll for New Mexico is from July 25th. In that poll, Obama held a five-point lead over John McCain. It is likely that the race in New Mexico is now tighter. In Nevada where Obama also held a narrow lead, McCain has flipped it and now holds a slight advantage. New Mexico has the nation’s largest percentage of Hispanics and Obama is leading among Hispanics nationwide by a 2 to 1 margin.
This 60 second radio spot attacks Obama on energy and spoofs Obama’s “inflate your tires” remarks. Interestingly enough, it is the first GOP attack in recent memory that also references Obama’s “bitter and clinging remarks” made in San Francisco. The ad is paid for by the New Mexico Republican Party.