A WEEK FROM TUESDAY, NEW MEXICANS WILL BE ELECTING A NEW GOVERNOR. SO WILL IT BE REPUBLICAN STEVE PEARCE OR DEMOCRAT MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM? UNM POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR LONNA ATKESON SAYS THE CAMPAIGN HAS TAKEN ON A NASTIER TONE LATELY AND IF PEARCE STARTS RUNNING NEGATIVE ADS SLAMMING LUJAN-GRISHAM, SHE’LL GO NEGATIVE WITH HER ADS AS WELL.
ATKESON SAYS, FROM THE BEGINNING, LUJAN GRISHAM APPEARED TO BE THE FRONTRUNNER IN THE RACE…IN PART DUE THE FACT NEW MEXICO HAS HAD A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS
