It degenerates into this conspiracy about FAIR’s origins.
We are talking about Cochran and others losing narrowly with conservatives staying home. That’s what happened to the last Republican Senator from Michigan in 2000.
“John Tanton, who founded FAIR in 1997 and still sits on its board of directors, has compared immigrants to bacteria. In an ad opposing Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., whose ancestry is Lebanese, FAIR “suggested that the senator’s position would cause Americans to be ‘... exposed to the threat of terrorism from criminals like Osama bin Laden.’” (that was in 2000) and after the terrorists overstaying visas in the 1990s during the first bombings.
#Beginning in the late 2000s, FAIR became increasingly “active in pushing anti-immigrant laws at the state and local level,” reports the SPLC. “Attorney Kris Kobach, who works for FAIR’s legal arm, the Immigration Reform Law Institute, helped to write Arizona Senate Bill 1070.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Michigan,_2000
“ By September 4, Abraham still had failed to reach 50% in polls despite having spent over $6 million on television ads.”
Democratic Debbie Stabenow 2,061,952 -49.47%
Republican Spencer Abraham (Incumbent) 1,994,693 -47.86%