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    USA Today says immigration is NOT a factor

    http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/02/ ... .html#more



    3. No, immigration reform is not an obsessive voter concern.

    During the ferocious immigration debate last year, commentators
    declared that McCain had doomed his candidacy with his co-sponsorship
    of comprehensive reform. Conventional wisdom suggested that
    Republicans harbored unquenchable rage toward illegal aliens
    and would reward candidates who shared their fury. As primary season
    unfolded, though, the Republicans identifying illegals as the nation's No. 1
    menace (Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter) generated no mass support
    and dropped out, while McCain staged his improbable comeback. At last,
    some Republican analysts have begun to realize that the party only hurt
    itself with its frenzied focus on immigration — especially when Democrats
    barely touched the issue.

    Two recent major polls (by NBC/Wall Street Journal and New York
    Times/CBS News) showed "illegal immigration" near the bottom of the list
    of voters' top concerns. Activists on the "Minute Man" fringe and talk radio
    demagogues may continue to pound away at immigrants as a doomsday
    threat, but the candidates have started to move on — particularly as the
    primary calendar leads to states with significant Hispanic populations.
    The collapse of immigration fever, even among the GOP, suggests that
    there's little chance the issue will dominate the general election, beyond
    universal agreement on tightening border security.

    With so many contests in so many corners of the country today (including
    big delegate hauls in California, Illinois and New York), we can
    reasonably expect more bombshells and upsets. Most of them will push
    our politics in the same direction as the three shocks above — toward the
    middle of the road, where ordinary people yearn for an end to
    hyperpartisan hysterics and prefer common sense and cooperation.


    In past elections, campaigns assumed that primaries were won by
    appealing to the base — running right for Republicans, left for
    Democrats — and then moving toward the center only after nominations
    had been secured. This year, the front-loaded schedule and intriguing
    slate of candidates brought more everyday voters into the system earlier
    than ever, diluting the influence of activists, agitators, fundraisers and
    political pros. The haphazard nomination system might look odd,
    awkward, ill-conceived and clumsy, but it has already displayed the
    formidable virtue of upending glib prognostications and opening and
    enlivening the process.

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    (By Michael Medved)

    Nationally syndicated radio talk host Michael Medved is the author of Right Turns. He is also a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors.

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    I wonder if USA Today has ANY EYES and EARS?! And a BRAIN to boot!

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    Just wait until May 1 when the illegals slit their own throats with their massive demonstrations. I believe that they will cross the line for the majority of American citizens, and that could change the tide

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