[zbigreddogz]

Immigration was not a national issue in 2000 or 04.

If that's true, why are all the Tancredo folks out there shouting that it's because wern't harsh enough on immigration that we lost?

[LS]

So that's why AZ passed four anti-illegal initiatives?

Sorry, what's at work here is the "Cake and eat it too" philosophy, where people want to pass laws, but re-elect "soft" leaders like Napolitano so they can't be called racists.

Sooner or later, they will be forced to choose, and the illegals will lose.

[TeenagedConservative]

If that's true, why are all the Tancredo folks out there shouting that it's because wern't harsh enough on immigration that we lost?

I don't know why pundits think the way they do, but the fact is that immigration before recent years just didn't turn people out to vote one way or the other. When people were asked why they voted a certain way, they almost invariably replied either Iraq, security, the economy, or moral issues.

[Edit35]

Immigration was not a national issue in 2000 or 04.

Immigration was barely an issue in '06.

It was lost in the haze of hate-mongering accusations in October as the mainstream press ran story after story after story about the HIGHEST RECORD of US military deaths in the Iraqi war.

I recall specifically, the week of Oct 15-22, the top news story EVERY day was death, destruction, quagmire, etc.

Then, Kerry made his bone-headed quip about 'non educated' getting "stuck" in Iraq.

So we had ANOTHER WEEK of non-stop Iraq death and destruction stories.

Prior to that, between Sept 28 and Oct 10, we had non-stop radio and TV stories about Foley the HYPOCRITICAL REPUBLICAN Perv Homo.Inbetween those two stories, we had Cunningham and Dey going to JAIL, etc.

The lamestream media was very, very effective in REFUSING to let out any good news this election cycle, and I am still seething.