NM: Sen. Pete Domenici (R) to Retire Next Year

[minionofmidas]

Go Chavez!

[minionofmidas]

The dangers for the NM Dems in NM-01 has never been the quality of the bench, but rather that the biggest machine-hack Dem politician (insert name) always seems to be the candidate to get out of the highly contested primary for that seat.  That turns off the Albuquerque Democrats who lean somewhat Independent anyway, especially when faced with a center-right Republican.  If WMS hadn't been driven out of here, he'd tell y'all this.

^^^

Al, please bring WMS back. Pleeeeze.

Great Opportunity for the Democrats

BTW: Do you Americans pronounce Chavez as "Shuh-Vess" or "Chaves" (like caves) ... ?

As in Spanish. SHAH-vez. (Well, depending on the accent, some Spanish speakers would say "CHAH-vez".) Americans generally know how to pronounce common Spanish words and names.

Almost all Spanish speakers would say "CHAH-vays" (the s at the end is pronounced like an s), with the possible exception of Castilians who might use "CHAH-vayth".  So we pronounce it incorrectly, as usual

"Vayz"? Definitely not.

tSAY-zar tCHAH-vez.

tsay?  Now you're speaking nonsense, though English orthography is convoluted enough that we might be saying the same thing but in a different way .  IPA is: /sesaɾ ʧaβ̞es/

Shouldn't that begin in a voiced th? (The remainder is correct.)

[minionofmidas]

Well, it depends on the dialect; Castilian Spanish would begin it with an unvoiced th (θ), I think.

Sorry, yeah, I meant unvoiced.