A few short months ago Democrats, lead by their "talking head" and "incompetent leader", decided to feature and play the "immigration card" thinking that the Hispanic vote would bring them success on November 4th. Times and circumstances seem to have changed for them and not in a way they may have ever imagined.
The Hill reports that using immigration reform as a 2014 campaign issue has become a dead end for Democrats, who are avoiding the subject as they run for Congress.
Part of the problem for Democrats is that the very group most vitally interested in the issue, the Latino population, will likely have little impact on the specific races that are critical, with the exception of Mark Udall’s senatorial race in Colorado.
The group most likely to swing the various elections, according to The Hill, is white working-class voters, who are more interested in the plunge in wages that has resulted from higher immigration. This is reflected in Barack Obama’s dwindling support among white voters without college degrees.
As more and more illegal immigrants pour over the Tex/Mex border each and every day between now and November 4th, Democrat hopes and pipe dreams for winning any additional seats in either house of Congress are quickly evaporating.
The problem Democrats have is that time is running out. There is not enough time to change election campaign tactics and there would be the residual hangover from the this failed effort to hang their failed immigration policies on the Republicans. Basically, no matter how Democrats may try to pivot to another issue to campaign on, it will be too little, too late. They have already alienated the demographic that is meaningful to them in winning the midterms. Now, if Republicans can manage not to screw things up between now and November 4th, there is some hope to stall out Obama and his political agenda from Hell for the remaining two years of his second term.
Read the full analysis from William Bigelow at Breitbart.
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