Mitch McConnell was reelected last night and will likely remain the GOP Senate minority leader. As the story below illustrates, he is not always the best on illegal immigration (note, he has a Career grade of C from Numbers, and a Recent grade of B-).

If you have the chance, please call his D.C. office at 202- 224-2541 or contact him online at http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact.cfm to urge him to work with Senator Sessions and DeMint in fighting illegal immigration:

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Politico
McConnell: The most powerful Republican
By MARTIN KADY II | 11/5/08 6:45 AM EST


With his party in tatters, Mitch McConnell is now the most powerful Republican in the country — the lone GOP senator who can stand in the way of an unfettered liberal agenda in Washington, and a key go-to man to rehabilitate his party.

McConnell, a soft-spoken Washington insider from Kentucky with a canny understanding of Senate tactics, is an unlikely pick to be the GOP’s Stonewall Jackson. Yet by virtue of surviving a tight reelection for a fifth term and having no real challenger to his position as Senate minority leader, McConnell is positioned to be both the ultimate dealmaker and the Republican firewall against a leftward tilt in American government.

McConnell’s first task will be to figure out how to soothe a decimated Republican Senate caucus divided between conservative ideologues who want to stand athwart history and block every Democratic initiative, and a group of moderates who may want to cut deals to ensure their own political survival.

On the night of Barack Obama’s historic victory, McConnell was playing the part of gracious dealmaker. For now.

In his victory speech Tuesday night, McConnell would say only that “the time to legislate will come,â€