The Immigration Silver Bullet: Insurgents Chart a GOP Path to Victory
Article publisher:
Breitbart
Article date:
18 September 2014
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
How can Republicans recapture the U.S. Senate from Harry Reid and the Democrats? A new Politico poll points to a winning strategy — if GOP leaders have the courage to use the remaining seven weeks to nationalize the elections around one game-changing issue.
Under the headline, “GOP has edge on immigration in midterms,” Politico offered a surprising review of battleground House and Senate races. The generally liberal publication found that two-thirds of likely voters disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the issue — and that even independent voters trust the GOP over the Democrats on the subject.
The crystalizing issue: the Texas border crisis. While the administration and the liberal media have used the emergency to shill for open borders, everyday Americans have reiterated their support for law and order. According to the poll, nearly half (49 percent) of respondents believe migrant children should return to their homeland; only 29 percent want them to stay.
The Politico tally is no outlier. It mirrors Gallup polls confirming that American attitudes this election year favor immigration control. In June, Gallup reported that just 22 percent of Americans want to increase immigration levels (while 41 percent want to see immigration actually reduced), while Gallup last month ranked “illegal immigration/illegal aliens” as the country’s No. 2 problem.
That’s not what the GOP old guard wants to hear. As late as January, establishment Republicans — including former Majority Leader Eric Cantor — were clamoring for the GOP to strike a so-called “reform” deal with Obama...
Yet the polls vindicate a cadre of insurgents who have, in the past few months, managed to transform the debate — and the GOP — by standing for American sovereignty, national security, and solidarity with anxious middle-income workers. From Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to radio host Laura Ingraham and Breitbart News, these pacesetters — some Republican, some independent, but all patriots — understand that big themes win elections. Rather than making nice with an unpopular president, they’re offering voters the proverbial “choice, not an echo,” reflecting the sentiments of a Middle America ignored by both parties for a generation...