More on Presidential Politics

June Kronholz writes in the Wall Street Journal:

Barack Obama had just ended his stump speech before a friendly audience in this tiny southern Iowa town when Stephen Scott’s hand shot up with a question. Would Mr. Obama, as president, have signed last summer’s failed “amnesty bill” for illegal immigrants, Mr. Scott, a local landscape painter, asked testily.

Mr. Obama cautiously walked through a long answer that ended with a plan to give legal status to long-established illegal immigrants. “There. Another question,” he said, shutting down discussion.

Democratic strategists believe that Hispanic voters could swing a decisive handful of states — including Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada — to the Democrats in 2008, ensuring the election of a Democratic president and cementing a Democratic majority for years to come. But the party’s blue-collar, middle-income and African-American supporters are increasingly angry about illegal immigration, much of it Hispanic. Click here for the full story.

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