Bad News For Immigration Panderers

NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO STOP BLOWING SMOKE UP OUR ASSES, S.C. POLITICIANS

FITSNews – January 14, 2008 – We wrote awhile back about some polling data that seemed to suggest we’ve been right all along in urging candidates for public office to start paying attention to pocketbook issues. But then again, it doesn’t take polling data to demonstrate how brilliant we are. That sh*t happens every time we open our mouths, people.

Anyway, in this morning’s New York Times story about people’s evolving presidential preferences is further proof that we are indeed the geniuses we say we are …

Americans’ priorities are also in flux early into the primary season. The survey found voters to be in their darkest mood about the economy in 18 years, by some measures; 62 percent said they believed that the economy was getting worse, the highest percentage since the run-up to the recession in 1990. Seventy-five percent said they believed that the country had “seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” also similar to levels in the early 1990s, when such discontent fueled the presidential candidacy of Bill Clinton.

Worries about the economy now dominate the voters’ agenda, even more so than the war in Iraq, which framed the early part of this campaign. While change has emerged as an abstract rallying cry in the campaign debate, what the voters mean when they talk about change is clear — new approaches to the economy and the war, according to the poll. Issues that have loomed large in the Republican debate — notably immigration, taxes and moral values — pale by comparison.

Uh-oh. Looks like the S.C. General Assembly’s 2008 playbook of pandering 24/7 on immigration issues is already obsolete, which is bad news when your economic record looks like this.