Support for Immigration Enforcement was a Key Factor in Many Democratic Victories

Federation for American Immigration Reform ^ | November 8, 2006 | Federation for American Immigration Reform

[Ben Ficklin]

Six members of the House Immigration Caucus were defeated.
Charlie Bass of NH went down.
Hostettler went down
Graf and Hayworth
Arnold, Napolotino, & Richardson won big.

[Dane]

Hayworth was in a Democratic majority district.

He is not in a majority democrat district. The district has a 5-3 GOP registration advantage.

[oldbrowser]

Sadly neither the Dems nor their constituents will care that they lied. It was too important for them to regain power. All lies are ok, you know, the old 'by any means necessary'logic?

Doesn't this sound like the Muslim credo that it is acceptable to lie to an infidel because they don't count anyway ?

[ShawTaylor]

From Rush Limbaugh:

"RUSH: J.D. Hayworth is from Arizona. Now, he's one of the Republican freshmen of '94, and he won that race by a very slim margin, because it's a Democrat district.

CALLER: Hm-hm.


RUSH: He kept it up until Tuesday. J.D. Hayworth led -- and this is Arizona, this is a state that is really up in arms about illegal immigration. J.D. Hayworth led the fight in Congress on the Republican side against illegal immigration. He lost. Now, the details of his loss are being totally misrepresented by the Drive-By Media. He ran against a Democrat who was parroting and echoing everything J.D. was saying. He was making himself out to be an even bigger anti-illegal immigrant guy when he wasn't. "


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110906/content/anchorman2.guest.html

[red state girl]

I've heard so many theories these last few days on why we lost the House and Senate ranging from Iraq, values, overspending, abandoning the Christians, catering to the Christians, Bush...etc.

The reason we lost is because of scandals and candidates that ran crappy campaigns.

[Dane]

Then why has Hayworth won his last three races with more than 60% of the vote. BTW, Rush is not always right.

Nobody but Mitchell has ever made Hayworth worry about his seat in District 5. In his dozen years in office, Hayworth had never won by less than 48 percent of the vote. And in the last three races, he won by at least 60 percent.

[originalbuckeye]

Oh, dear, now you've done it! You've taken the mask off the face of the Democrats and shown the face of Radical Islam to be underneath!

[FreeReign]

The article is exactly spot on. If you will show us how many Democrats won in red states, that run on an open borders platform, and won, then you could possibly have a tiny point. Otherwise the BS is coming from your direction.

20 Republican incumbents were defeated in the House. Of those 20, 18 voted for HR4437. One of the two who voted against HR4437, JD Hayworth said it didn't go far enough.

Only one incumbent who was against illegal immigration reform, lost. 19 incumbents who were for illegal immigration, lost.

The following is a list of incumbents who lost and how they voted on HR 4437.

Jim Ryun (KS) - Yes
J.D. Hayworth (AZ) - No
Richard Pombo (CA) - Yes
Chris Chocola (IN) - Yes
Gil Gutknecht (MN) - Yes
Charles Taylor (NC) - Yes
Mike Sodrel (IN) - Yes
Melissa Hart (PA) - Yes
John Hostettler (IN) - Yes
Don Sherwood (PA) - Yes
Anne Northup (KY) - Yes
Clay Shaw (NC) - Yes
John Sweeney (NY) - Yes
Jeb Bradley (NH) - Yes
Charles Bass (NH) - Yes
Curt Weldon (PA) - Yes
Sue Kelly (NY) - Yes
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA) - Yes
Nancy Johnson (CT) - Yes
Jim Leach (IA) - No

Those are the facts. Te BS is this article and your support of it.

[Kimberly GG]

Welcome to Free Republic!

What do you find 'negative' about stopping Bush's amnesty?

[FreeReign]

Correction:Only one incumbent who was against illegal immigration reform, lost. 19 incumbents who were for illegal immigration reform, lost.

[ShawTaylor]

The reason we lost is because of scandals and candidates that ran crappy campaigns.

Correct
That Mark Foley scandal at the closing stages of the campaign just did us in.
And the drive-by media kept hammering Republicans over that non-stop for over 3 weeks.
That about finished us.
Even so, it was a very very closely run thing.
Talking about crappy campaign, the one that comes to mind is Allen.
He should have won easily.
He didn't campaign well.
And that "Macaca" thing was blown out of all proportion by the Washington Post, which simply kept hammering him over it for the rest of the campaign.
We simply have to do something even more drastic about the liberal media.

[Dane]

Rush is wrong. Hayowrth's district has about a 5-3 GOP registration advantage.

Mr. Hayworth, a former television sports anchor, serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Resources Committee. District 5 includes Scottsdale, Tempe, Fountain Hills, Ahwatukee, Rio Verde, and portions of Mesa, Phoenix and Chandler.The district maintains a Republican registration advantage of 139,000 compared to 87,000 Democrats. There are also 87,000 registered voters identified as “other,” as well as 2,300 Libertarians, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

[skeeter]

Hayworth made immigration his single issue and he lost.

Your giggling over this good conservative losing might yet be a little premature.

Why not hold off on the celebration until all the absentees are counted?

[RegulatorCountry]

And what sort of campaign did the various, victorious Democrats run, vis-a-vis illegal immigration, compared to the 20 defeated Republican incumbents that you so kindly listed? Clay Shaw is not a North Carolina representative, by the way. He's Florida, District 22 I believe.

Jim Ryun (KS) - Yes
J.D. Hayworth (AZ) - No
Richard Pombo (CA) - Yes
Chris Chocola (IN) - Yes
Gil Gutknecht (MN) - Yes
Charles Taylor (NC) - Yes
Mike Sodrel (IN) - Yes
Melissa Hart (PA) - Yes
John Hostettler (IN) - Yes
Don Sherwood (PA) - Yes
Anne Northup (KY) - Yes
Clay Shaw (NC) - Yes
John Sweeney (NY) - Yes
Jeb Bradley (NH) - Yes
Charles Bass (NH) - Yes
Curt Weldon (PA) - Yes
Sue Kelly (NY) - Yes
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA) - Yes
Nancy Johnson (CT) - Yes
Jim Leach (IA) - No

[brytlea]

I suspect the latter, but perhaps they really meant it.
susie

[Dane]

I'm not "giggling" about his loss. J.D Hayworth jumped on the Tancredo bandwagon and got burned.

[ShawTaylor]

20 Republican incumbents were defeated in the House. Of those 20, 18 voted for HR4437

And nearly 200 Republicans won their seats, and of those nearly all of them voted AGAINST amnesty.
So its 20 versus 200.
Which is stronger?

Those are the facts

What about facts that no Democrat run a campaign advocating open borders?
Open borders can't win, when no one campaigned for it. Add in the Democrats that run on strong border enforcement and there you have it.
You are still talking BS.

[Kimberly GG]

"If the Democrats get some wits about them and adopt a policy of sealing the border and coming down hard on employers, they will sweep the elections in 2008."

And if Bush had done the same by militarizing the border on 9/12 and enforcing our immigration laws, retaining majority would have been a slam dunk. His OBL agenda took precidence over national security and sovreignty.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Laughable. II were a non issue. No one in their right mind believes the RATS will do anything except make it worse.

The election was lost because of the power of the Treason Media to control the Independents and Moderates. Reducing that power is the ONLY way the GOP can win.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Your giggling over this good conservative losing might yet be a little premature."

It is a little unseemly, isn't it? Wanting a fellow Republican to lose, because of some strange fixation upon open borders.