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Legends of the fall.(IMMIGRATION)
IMMIGRATION restrictionists did badly in the election, but only because they were disproportionately Republicans in a bad year for the breed. The notion that they lost because they were restrictionists is spin from the open-borders crowd.
Now it is true that a monomaniacal obsession with immigration seems to have hurt congressman J. D. Hayworth and congressional candidate Randy Graf in Arizona. But opposition to amnesty helped other Republicans, such as Chris Shays of Connecticut and Pete King of New York, withstand the Democratic tide. Several victorious Democratic candidates--such as Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb, whose win flipped the Senate to the Democrats--favored enforcement first. Meanwhile some Republican supporters of amnesty, such as Sens. Mike DeWine and Lincoln Chafee, lost their reelection bids.
Even in Arizona, Sen. Jon Kyl, who voted against the open-borders bill, beat a Democratic candidate who supported it. Arizona voters also approved, by wide margins, three ballot measures cracking down on illegal immigration, plus one declaring English the state's official language.
A final piece of mythology concerns the Hispanic vote. Exit polling found that 30 percent of Hispanics voted for Republican House candidates, down from 38 percent in the 2002 midterms. To see the significance of this drop, it has to be put in context. The percentage of ...
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