Hardly. It ebbs and flows in effectiveness. Right now, it is flowing like never before in polling, due to the anger at the border chaos Obama has engineered. It is even spilling over into polling on legal immigration, as the new Gallup poll shows.
Also I did not say districts and states are the same. But you implied the issue doesn't work in a state, and that is simply wrong.
Our main disagreement is this: I think anyone who cares about this issue did vote, and did vote McDaniel. I don’t think he left any “money on the table” on this issue. That’s my main point. His total vote figures were impressive for a mid term primary.
I implied, and even assert, that the issue does not work in some states like it did in that single Virginia district - I speak of those with large migrant worker populations. The migrant worker dynamic has been around for much longer than the last 2-3 decades, when the invasion really picked up - and many of those people who depend on them (which includes all of us who eat fruits and veggies BTW) - will not support the extremes you probably do on deport. They just won’t. Not saying it’s right, just saying it is.
And not a lot of farmers in Cantor’s district, BTW.
So yes, it is effective, but not equally or universally…..and still, there’s just no way in hell Cochran is going to be as impacted by this issue as is Cantor. Cantor was one of the known leaders of the movement, Cochran was not. Period. End of discussion.