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Tancredo: Tilting at Windmills? Congressman seeks to influence 2008 race with immigration
By Jonathan Ellis
10/05/2005

Tom Tancredo, the nation's unofficial godfather of the anti-illegal immigration movement, leaned back in the booth of a Mexican restaurant in Littleton on a recent afternoon and laughed.

"I honestly haven't thought about that," he said.

What Tancredo hadn't contemplated was the question of whom he would pick as a running mate if he won the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination.

The fourth-term congressman from the 6th Congressional District, which includes Littleton, has embarked on an unofficial bid to be the nation's next president. In recent weeks he's piled up the frequent flier miles, traveling to Utah, California, Arizona as well as Iowa and New Hampshire â€â€