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April 13, 2006

Base Ball

Insta has the following comment about the Democrats not coming out tougher than Bush on immigration

I've been kind of surprised that the Democrats haven't done more of this, given their African-American and labor constituencies. It strikes me that both parties are doing their best to ignore the base on this issue, and I'm not quite sure why that is.

I don't think they are ignoring the base; they are both actively courting their new base. Look, the Democrats have got the black and the labor votes pretty much locked up, and the Republicans have there various conservative elements as well. But they are both vying for the latin/hispanic/whatever you want to call it base, which all the demographics show is the base of the future, especially when at the end of the day most of these 11 million are going to end up as voting citizens. So the game is really about who can attract these folks to their party, sadly, and not about something silly like, oh, say what's best for the country.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at April 13, 2006 11:44 AM

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Posted by: Crusader at April 13, 2006 02:09 PM