" There are many people who are incredibly angry about the border issue."
My friend's sister-in-law, a lifelong GOP voter, sat out the vote because she is so angry at the illegal aliens flooding this nation.
I see it here in Oregon, construction sites and restaurants are almost entirely 100% native Mexican workers that cannot speak English. I don't think any of them are legal, and no one seems to care.
Firefighting crews, too, are almost entirely Mexican. There's no way that that native-born Anglos are that unqualified for fire-fighting, construction and restaurant work that they are never hired, so it has to be that the Latinos are being paid substandard wages, or wages under the table.
I'm sick at heart at the way this country is headed...
Ed
The really sad thing is that the media pushes the view that the Democrats are winning because of the problems in Iraq. They totally ignore (deliberately) that many conservatives could not get over the anger they have at our unprotected southern border, out of control spending, and lack of progress on social security reform. I held my nose and voted. Many people couldn't do that.
A perfect storm for Republicans on this issue at least. They were damned if they did and damned if they didn't.
Dems just sat back and did the cheshire cat thing even though their position is far more open borders than any Republican.
Dems see the illegals flooding in as potential Unionista supporters...just like dem Boss Tweed viewed the Irish in the 19th century.
Well Ed, that's how I saw California going in the early 90s. I tried to speak out about it, but folks dismissed it and played it off as soft-(or full blown) racism. No, we actually do have a right to a culture even if our own friends can't quite grasp that.
Thanks. I know where you are coming from.