Tom Udall is in the NM Senate race and in to win! From the AP:

NM Rep. Tom Udall to Run for Senate

By DEBORAH BAKER - 43 minutes ago

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Democratic Rep. Tom Udall who will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Pete Domenici, an aide to the congressman said Saturday.

"He's definitely running," Tom Nagle, Udall's chief of staff, told The Associated Press.

Udall will formally announce his decision in New Mexico during Congress's Thanksgiving recess, Nagle said.

[. . .]

Udall had said he planned to stay in the House, where he is a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee. But he reconsidered after a "groundswell" of encouragement from New Mexicans, Nagle said.

"He thinks it's too important not to run for the Senate," Nagle said. "A lot of the good things we've been able to do (in the House) don't go anywhere in the Senate."

Massive props to everyone who helped with the Draft Udall movement! Now comes the hard work of electing Tom Udall to the US Senate to fulfill our mantra of MORE AND BETTER UDALLS!

Update [2007-11-10 19:42:46 by Jonathan Singer]: Internal polling released by the Udall campaign confirms what we've seen in public polling: New Mexicans want Tom Udall to be their next Senator.

Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates (D), 10/23-27, 500 GE LVs (MoE +/- 4.3%), 439 Dem primary LVs (MoE +/- 4.6%)

General Election

R/D	Udall	Chavez
Wilson	36/52	43/47
Pearce	33/50	44/40

Democratic Primary

Udall 50
Chavez 30
Wiviott 2
Undecided 17

Looking at the internal numbers from the poll, the strongly progressive Udall performs evven better among moderate voters than he does overall, leading Wilson 70 percent to 20 percent among this group and leading Pearce 65 percent to 24 percent among it. (Note that the margin of error for subsamples is higher than the overall number.)

And looking at the overall numbers, they run similar to public polling. In the head-to-head between Udall and Wilson, the Democrat leads by 16 points in the FMMA poll, as compared with 17 points in a Research 2000 poll and 18 points in a SurveyUSA poll. Similarly, Udall's 17-point lead over Pearce is not too dissimilar from his 17-point lead in the R2k poll or his 18-point lead in the SUSA poll. So one need not necessarily write off this survey simply because it was commissioned by the Udall campaign.