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Steve Pearce, a decorated Air Force veteran, said his Democratic opponent is weak on Iraq, is a rarity in the national struggle around the house, which seems to domestic subjects.

If the State Senator John Arthur Smith, M. Pearce’s Democratic opponents in New Mexico’s second district - one of the tossup races expected to determine control of the house - last month that President Bush should obtain the dispatch of Congress and to seek international support before taking military action, Mr. Pearce attacked him.

Smith’s”indécision shows that he did not intend to our national interests, Mr,’’said Pearce.

Mr. Pearce has served two terms in the New Mexico House, no longer dwells on Iraq, but he often brings his military context. He issued recently, Hector Barreto, head of the Small Business Administration, told a reception here that Mr. Pearce, a Republican, could contribute, the president, because he understands Defense Department”und, how we we armed forces to deteriorate. ”

Mr. Smith said that the problem is dead. ”I objected, if the President was happening, unilaterally,”he said. ”I support the President, it now receives support in Congress and our allies, as far as we can.”

Mr. Smith also criticized two fellow Democrats and representatives of David E. Bonior of Michigan and Washington, Jim McDermott, for travel in Iraq.

”I think it is destructive,’’said Smith. ”We must speak with one voice.”

Much of the time, these two candidates for the house to speak with one voice as they try to win the seat as representative of Joe Skeen, for Republicans to 22 years. Mr. Skeen never had a hard race, but now, because he is retired and the seat is open, Democrats have high hopes in him.

On the only national issue, to which Mr. Pearce and Mr. Smith is clearly distinguish taxes. Mr. Pearce, an entrepreneur in the oil-Service-Hobbs field of industry, wants more tax cuts, including an end to taxation on land and capital gains. Mr. Smith, an expert estimates Deming, said the deficit and the likely cost of a war against Iraq, has meant,”we’ll probably have to go immediately Steuersenkungen”im a portion of recent years.

But over time, they accentuate the same issues as their commitment to the Second Amendment and New Mexico’s Gun Ownership and the importance of water in this great and dry County - roughly the southern half of the country - which is as large as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The race appears to be himself. Local Polls have yet to show whether a candidate to investigate outside “the margin of sampling error.

The decisive factor is probably not resident issuers, such local concerns or disease reimbursement rates - New Mexico receives less money for the procedure that most states - or even the fact that New Mexico has a greater proportion of people without health insurance than in any other State. Before the national average of 14.7 percent, New Mexico, 23.2 percent without insurance.

Instead the election is likely to turn on Hispanic voter participation. The voters of Mexican descent make up more than half of voters in this circle, but they only have a job traditionally thirds of the votes. That may change this year, said Jose Z. Garcia, Associate Professor of Government, New Mexico State University.

Professor Garcia said moved by the enthusiasm of Bill Richardson, Democrat for governor candidates, Hispanic, a chance to choose their own environment on the desktop, says voter turnout and expected to Mr. Smith. Polls indicate that Mr. Pearce gets more Anglo voters, while Mr. Smith, obtains greater majority of Hispanics.

This district is crucial to each party hopes of controlling Congress, but the problem is rarely discussed, although sometimes the portrait of Mr. Pearce his opponents as liberal as it is representative to vote for Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri speakerphone.

Although Mr. Smith has a lot of help from the Democratic Congress campaign he launched, Mr. Gephardt, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the party whip, many Democrats, or with national authorities during the campaign visibility for him. Mr. Pearce, however, thus contributing to the campaign, not only Mr. Barreto of the Small Business Administration, but also President Bush and the Republican Congress, most chefs.