The Moderate Voice: "A new Gallup poll taking the pulse of voters on the 2008 race has good news for Republican candidates in general and very bad news for Democrat John Kerry in particular."
Here's a short article about immigration and Tom Tancredo's attempt to stoke the fires of conversation from the Rocky Mountain News [August 4, 2005, "Tancredo tour sows national seeds"]. From the article, "State to state, small town to small town, he's spreading the seeds for a national grass-roots movement. The question is whether he can make it grow beyond a core of die-hard local activists so that immigration issues - and maybe Tancredo himself - become serious factors in the 2008 presidential contest."
Westword has a short interview with Jackie Tancredo. From the article: "Q: Has immigration always been a hot-button issue?
"A: When he was in the Statehouse, it was bilingual education. As teachers, both of us believe that the most important thing the government can do is provide the best possibilities for children, and we saw bilingual education as being harmful to them because they were not learning English and getting the fruits of the American society. That was the precursor to immigration. It wasn't a new issue to him; he's always been on the forefront of issues. He started the immigration caucus when he first got to Congress. At that point, there were thirty or forty people. Then 9/11 happened, and it all changed. At that point, everyone started saying we have to re-evaluate immigration."
Political Wire: "A Democracy Corps strategy memo says that despite the defection of many Hispanic voters to President Bush last year -- up 5% from the 2000 election -- they 'remain instinctively very Democratic, but more important than that, they hold values, views of society, the economy and the role of government, as well as issue priorities and hopes for America, that put them deep inside the Democratic world. The Democrats will stem the erosion of the Hispanic vote, not by chasing the defectors or waving the partisan banner, but by rediscovering their own values and beliefs. The route to a national Democratic majority goes right through the Hispanic community, where Democrats will find the themes that best define the modern Democratic Party.'"
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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