Actually, John, it’s not true that issues aren’t election winners. National security is an election-winner, as we saw in a series of Senate races in 2002. Health care was an election winner in a Pennsylvania special Senate election in 1991 that paved the way for the Clinton election plan in 1992. Opposition to racial preferences has been a winner at the ballot box, as the 1994 results in California demonstrate. And in the latest CBS News poll, 3 percent of Americans say immigration is the most important issue facing the country today. Three percent.
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