it's undoubtedly a good thing. this is a good talker for him as the party tries to expand its appeal. in the republican prprimary, it much more problematic. there's a very vocal slice in the republican party, especially in iowa and south carolina, who are hostile to not just comprehensive immigration reform, but any immigration reform. so this could be a problem for christie. but there's another way to look at this. if you look at polling before the iowa caucuses in 2011, a lot of republican voters said they'd be willing to support someone who they didn't agree with on immigration reform, and "the new york times" actually measured which of the 2012 candidates got the best support on the issue of immigration, wolf, and the two candidates that came out on top in iowa were rick perry and newt gingrich, who had the emotion moderate sorlt of platforms in the republican primary. so christie can sort of stake out that space in the republican party. let everyone else sort of move to the right and he can go after