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Date Posted: 21:41:15 02/10/08 Sun
Author: HF
Subject: I read this piece I thought was kind of interesting recently.
In reply to: muppetmel 's message, "Re: You may be right Muppy - I hope so" on 11:05:10 02/10/08 Sun

Now, it was in an admittedly exceptionally liberal article in Rolling Stone, but the mag does publish PJ O'Rourke so...

Anyway, it said that in '04 the Republicans got a lot of the conservative-leaning independent vote with the anti-gay marriage bills. The article noted that this time around, the "hot button" Repub. issue is immigration and that it's really weird because if you survey the population it's revealed that roughly the same percentage that supports banning gay marriage supports more lenient immigration laws. So while in '04, the conservatives were picking up a good part of the independents, this year they're totally alienating them and sending them to the Dems. No idea if this is actually true or not, but as a "let whoever wants into the US come in" kind of gal, I find the theory fascinating.

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