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+Susana Martinez/John Sanchez (R)
321,219
 		53.29%
Diane Denish/Brian Colón (D)
 280,614
 		46.55%
Kenneth A. Gomez (w/in)
 		994
 		0.16%

602,827
Registered voters: 1,152,917.  Ballots cast: 607,700. 
Plurality:  40,605 votes (6.74 percentage points)
 NM Secretary of State


REPUBLICAN PICK UP
Notes:  Gov. Bill Richardson (D) was term limited.  Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez (R) defeated Lt. Gov. Diane Denish (D) (>) to become the first woman elected governor of the state.   There was some weariness with Richardson (+), and a central element of Martinez's message was criticism of the "Richardson-Denish adminstration."

Debates included:

Aug. 19 - debate on education at Eldorado High School in Albuquerque;

Oct. 17 - KOAT and Albuquerque Journal (>);

Oct. 21 - at KOB-TV studios in Albuquerque (>):
 
June 1 Primaries
In the Republican primary, Martinez won with 62,006 votes (50.7%) followed by former NM Republican Party chair Allen Weh at 33,727 (27.6%), PR firm executive Doug Turner 14,166 (11.6%), attorney Pete Domenici Jr. 8,630 (7.0%) and state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones 3,740 (3.1%).  For lieutenant governor John A. Sanchez, the 2002 Republican gubernatorial nominee, won 39.6% of the vote defeating Kent Cravens and Brian K. Moore.

In the Democratic primary for Governor, Denish was unchallenged except for a write-in candidate.  Five candidates vied for the lieutenant governor nomination; attorney Brian S. Colón won the primary with 28.67%, thereby joining Denish on the ticket.  He defeated former Albuquerque CAO Lawrence D. Rael (24.39%), state Rep. Jose Campos (20.41%), state Sen. Linda López (14.57%) and state Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino (11.97%).


Campaign Managers:
Susana Martinez:  Adam Deguire
(Jan. 2010)  Executive director of the Hawaii Republican Party in the 2008 cycle.  Western states director for the RNC.  Bachelor's degree in political science from University of Arizona.

...replaced Jamie Estrada (July-Dec. 2009)

Diane Denish:  Oren Shur
(Aug. 2009)  Communications director on Nixon for Governor, June 2007-Nov. 2008, and for the transition.  Communications director in the Office of Sen. Ben Cardin, Nov. 2006-June 2007.  Press secretary/spokesman at Ben Cardin for U.S. Senate, April 2005-Nov. 2006.  B.A. in political communication from The George Washington University, 2003.
 

See also:
Archives of Women's Political Communication at Iowa State University: Susana Martinez.

Gabriel Sanchez, Jillian Medeiros and Vickie Ybarra.  "Hispanic Vote will decide next Governor of New Mexico."  Latino Decisions, Oct. 19, 2010.

Marc Lacey.  "Richardson Shapes New Mexico Race."  The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2010.

Joshua Goldman and Melissa Siegel.  "A 'Scandal' in New Mexico?"  FactCheck.org, Sept. 22, 2010.

Josh Kraushaar.  "Denish steps out on her own in N.M."  Politico, Dec. 14, 2009.



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