>>If Republicans and the American people are so anti-amnesty, then why aren’t Tancredo and Hunter leading in the polls?<<
It’s true that if 95% of the people were as opposed to the kind of amnesty that Bush/Kennedy tried to force down our throats as I am, they would take the time to learn more about the candidates’ real intentions and records. Giuliani made a statement that he was opposed to the Bush/Kennedy amnesty bill for technical reasons, and I think all of the Republican candidates have made statements opposing amnesty.
However, polls on support of candidates, in general, do not correlate that well to polls of the candidates’ true positions on issues. Hillary voted for the war resolution, Obama voted against, and yet Hillary has a huge lead. I would say that winning the general election is more important to Dems than perceived shades of anti-war commitment. Giuliani gets support from people partly because of name recognition and the feeling that he would carry states that “right wing” candidates would not.
Thanks to Bush’s bungling of the war, we might get a pro-amnesty/”pro-choice” congress and POTUS, even though I believe that majorities in both parties are opposed to amnesty. I will work to try to prevent that from happening.