Talk:1997 New Mexico's 3rd congressional district special election

Photographs of candidates needed
Hey anyone who stumbles on this page! I've looked everywhere, but I can't find any free images of either Eric Serna or Carol Miller. You can see non-free images of Serna here and Miller here. Because both people are still alive, it's not acceptable to upload a non-free image to use here.  Nomader  ( talk ) 16:23, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Some comments

 * "The heavily Democratic 3rd district held a large Democratic voter registration advantage, and was widely seen as a safe Democratic seat. The district breakdown was 59 percent Democratic, 29 percent Republican, 2 percent Green, and 9 percent Independent, giving Democrats a wide support base.[2]" This seems to repeat itself quite a bit and at the very least could be expressed without using "Democrat"[s] five times in two sentences.
 * " selecting a delegation" This is a bit unclear. Perhaps "selecting convention delegates"
 * " as he announced that he had enough support locked in from the 89 Democratic Central Committee members who chose the nominee." perhaps "as he announced that he had enough support from the 89 members to gain the nomination". Or some such. You're repeating yourself.
 * "Serna met with Democratic leadership to earn their support in Washington, D.C. and to campaign among the delegation there." This feels like it might be repeating itself too. Presumably he wanted the support of New Mexico's four federal lawmakers, but is "Democratic leadership" the same thing or do we mean the congressional leadership? It could be clearer in either case.
 * "A number of Democrats who considered running for the seat chastised Serna and the Democratic Party for its "back room politics" approach to the nomination, while Serna announced the names of 56 of the 83 member central committee that publicly supported him.[22][23] A couple of things. A comma probably should not be used to join two such distantly related topics. The announcement by Serna seems again a duplicate of information we have already gotten, "who" should be used instead of "that", central committee isn't capped whereas it was before (be consistent throughout), and when did 89 become 83?
 * I'd make it clear up front that Galanis was a candidate. That doesn't become clear until several sentences after he's first mentioned.
 * "the speed at which the nomination was coming forward.[27] Senator Roman Maes" Coming forward should probably be "being decided" or similar, and if Maes is a state senator, which I imagine he was, that should be more clearly stated.
 * "former Governor" etc. review MOS:JOBTITLES.
 * More later.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:58, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * "Attacks between" Can you have "attacks between"?
 * "Democrats lodged an FEC complaint regarding Redmond's missing identification requirements that they alleged he failed to file.[2]" I'm not sure what this means.
 * "A last debate, hosted by KNME-TV, took place a day before the primary.[69] " The primary or the general election?
 * Did anything else change besides the Democratic candidate between 1997 and 1998, for example the Green candidate or the law re fusion tickets?
 * That's it. If you give me a ping when you're ready, I'll do a second run-through.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:23, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Reference check
A number of the Newsbank references appear to be unavailable when not logged into a library (or somehow seem to be dead links). I'm doing a spot check of every reference in the article by opening URLs in a private browser -- I've already gone through #8, but will be keeping this section for reference for the remainder of them. Nomader ( talk ) 14:49, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 8: Newsbank works.
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 * 11: Reference is broken, doesn't lead to anything. Working on finding in Newspapers.com.
 * 12: Leads to a login page where my login doesn't work. Working on finding in Newspapers.com
 * 13: Leads to a login page where my login doesn't work. Working on finding in Newspapers.com
 * 14: Newsbank works.
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 * 19: Newsbank worked, but the URL had a weird title missing which I hadn't noticed. Switched to Newspapers.com.
 * 20: Newsbank works.
 * 21: Reference is broken and leads to a dead Newsbank page.
 * 22: Leads to a login page where my login doesn't work. Working on finding in Newspapers.com
 * 23: Newsbank works.
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 * 25: Reference is broken, doesn't lead to anything. Working on finding in Newspapers.com.