Can a third party candidate win?

[Drakus79]

I think it's a bit unfair to categorize NM as a backward state considering it's a mostly rural southwestern desert state with few big cities and unlike CA, it didn't really grow during the gold rush, whereas MA benefits from being part of the northeastern block that is the New York-Boston-New England megalopolis. That's pretty much been the heart of the US since the 1500s. As if a Democratic governor would have turned NM into CA or something.