[Clemenza]

Yawn. How does that explain Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Indiana? How about the white suburbs of almost every major city outside of the sunbelt?

Remember, however, that massive (southern and Eastern) European immigration brought us the Dem majorities from the 1930s-1970s, so this is not unprecedented. Nevertheless, we will not truly see the real effects of the current wave of immigration on politics for another 15 years. What you have seen is the "greening" of suburbia and the secularization of American society (something I wish my religious friends would accept as fact). More than that, however, it was a volatile economy and frustration with Bush that ultimately damned McCain.

[Ballygrl]

And it shows you how stupid the American people are when this economic crisis was caused by the Democrats and IMO I think George Soros had a hand in this.

[yongin]

The story tonight is - Rust Belt Seniors with traditional views on race decided they hate Republicans more than minorities.

There goes the Brady Effect. The McCain camp and some Freepers hoped that the undecideds were really people who were afraid to admit their preference for McCain. It turns out that the undecideds had qualms with both candidates. The economy pushed them over the edge to Obama.

[Old North State]

Immigration is surely part of the problem, but consider some of the other , cultural, trends that work against conservatives:
Half of the country payes no appreciable income taxes.
Half the country have the government as their primary source of income.
Plus McCain hoisted himself on the petard of public financing and was outspent four to one, and that doesn't count the relentless pounding from a media deep in the tank for Obama.
“New Tone” G. Bush would not fight back against the democrats and let them establish that Iraq was a disaster and the financial meltdown was all Wall Street’s fault.