[KR: A reporter asked me a couple of days ago about immigration and the primary races, and wanted to know why McCain has been able to overcome that issue. Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal provides some possible reasons below. Whatever the explanation, it certainly turns the conventional wisdom of 2006 on its head -- that immigrant legalization is a third-rail issue for a large part of the GOP base. The big question if McCain gets the nod is: Where will the anti-immigration voter go?]
McCain Gains as Furor Over Immigration Cools
January 29, 2008
CAPITAL JOURNAL
By GERALD SEIB
Six months ago, when Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign was left for dead at the side of the road to the White House, he seemed to have perished because he was in the wrong place on two important issues: Iraq and immigration.
Today, as Republican voters go to the polls in Florida to determine whether Sen. McCain has become the clear favorite to win the Republican nomination, it is worth considering how things have turned around.
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