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Archive for January 5, 2008
NOTE TO CANDIDATES: SCAPEGOATING THE UNDOCUMENTED WON’T GET YOU ELECTED
January 5, 2008 by Bradley Maged.
According to an article on chicagotribune.com: “Immigrant bashing just does not move votes. The 2006 elections were a disaster for anti-immigrant demagoguery. Not only did the issue fail to stave off the Republican loss of the House and Senate, but leading Republican anti-immigrant campaigners such as Reps. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona and John Hostettler of Indiana and Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania all lost their races. And in a telling portent of the future, Latino support for the GOP dropped to 26 percent from 44 percent.”
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IMMIGRATION NOT HURTING MCCAIN
January 5, 2008 by Bradley Maged.
According to an interesting article on www.chron.com: “A number of voters interviewed said that while they continued to disagree with McCain on immigration, they appreciated his honesty and liked his stance on other issues, particularly foreign policy…The immigration issue also failed to hurt Mike Huckabee, who won the GOP caucuses in Iowa Thursday despite being attacked for backing college scholarships to illegal immigrants while Arkansas’ governor.”
If candidates’ pro-immigrant stances fail to deter GOP caucus-goers in the primaries where anti-immigration feelings are most prevalent, it should have even less of an effect in the general elections. On the other hand, those candidates who demonize immigrants to move ahead in the primaries will have a great deal of trouble garnering the Hispanic vote in the general election. I believe that those voters who have family members or friends who have been affected by the recent anti-immigration movement will hold a grudge against those candidates who support the current climate. Those voters who can be swayed (independents or undecided voters as opposed to hard-core Republicans), who may oppose allowing any earned legalization for the undocumented, will probably vote for candidates on bread and butter issues rather than on immigration.
My advice would be for the candidates to steer clear of the topic of immigration whenever possible as there is no winning political position on this volatile issue.
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