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I'm kind of hearing Republicans interviewed on the news not even wanting to touch the point when asked about it.

Was the immigration thing just something magnified just for the elections?

just like the gay-marriage stuff during Bush's re-election campaign?

I mean, those days all the news were talking about gay marriage and laws and so forth. After the election all of that just went off.

Now, there was a lot of talk about immigration and illegals (and so on). And I think that it too will go away (not the problem, but all the talk )

Do you think so? What do you think?

2006-11-07 17:34:16 · 5 answers · asked by MSM 1 in Politics & Government Politics

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election hype...........smoke and mirror and distract from war.

2006-11-07 17:36:08 · answer #1 · answered by cork 7 · 0 1

I think you might be right. Republican supporters tend to be more in favor of cracking down on immigration, but business is a major source of the Republican party's support, and business typically opposes immigration crackdowns since they deprive certain companies of cheap labor. The ideal strategy for the party, it seems, would be to use the issue to gain political support, but then not actually do anything which would cause them to lose business support. And then blame the failure to do anything on the democrats in the next election in order to turn out their supporters again. Things like this that arouse people's passions are often played up before elections. Flag burning amendments are another good example.

Maybe as with gay marriage the issue will move to the state level? I think its possible, there were already a few state constitution amendments about immigration in this election.

2006-11-08 01:44:56 · answer #2 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 1 0

It was an election issue the Republicans were hoping would polarize voters and give them an edge. In the end most polls showed the people weren't that concerned about, expect it to become a dead issue in the next couple of weeks.

2006-11-08 02:09:08 · answer #3 · answered by nagurski3 3 · 0 0

Yes I do think some of it will go. Most people are more interested in social issues during election campaigns.

2006-11-08 01:37:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

never thrust a politician. they have their personal agenda behind each move.

2006-11-08 01:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by KCL 3 · 0 0

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