[lbo-talk] Immigration: The Wedge Issue That Didn't Work

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 12 12:26:25 PST 2006


http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/953bsxvs.asp

....Immigration was the dog that didn't bark. It did not prove an effective wedge issue. And as far as could be determined, it decided few if any contests. No congressional or gubernatorial candidate otherwise poised to win was defeated primarily because of his or her views on immigration. No more than one or two, if that many, struggling to catch up managed to ride it to victory. And the most stridently restrictionist candidate in the country, Arizona congressional hopeful Randy Graf, who ran a campaign based almost entirely on immigrant-bashing, went down in flaming defeat....

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