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MCCAIN WINS NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY

Senator John McCain won the NH primary with Mitt Romney coming in second.  Romney will undoubtedly tone up his rhetoric on illegal immigration as he becomes increasingly desperate to win the nomination.  So far Romney’s “amnesty” talk has  lost him both Iowa and New Hampshire.

It will be a long haul, however if McCain wins the nomination, it goes to show that despite the media hype, Americans will decide who will be their president based on bread and butter issues rather than the candidate’s stance on immigration.

ROMNEY’S IMMIGRATION FLIP FLOPPING

According to an editorial that appeared on washingtonpost.com:  “MITT ROMNEY, struggling to revive his floundering candidacy and to stiff-arm a surging Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, has pushed his plan for dealing with illegal immigration to center stage. Unfortunately, it is no plan at all. That has become clear in recent days, and particularly at the GOP candidates’ debate Saturday, when Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, contradicted himself repeatedly, as well as his own TV advertisements, while stumbling in rhetorical figure-eights around the immigration debate.”

Candidates should try to stay away from the immigration issue as any strong position will eventually come back to bite them.

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