who s this going to ignite? anybody? well, chris, i think look, as i said, it is part of a broader set of issues, right? i don t know that there are that many hispanic voters who are going to be driven to the polls by this issue specifically. i think there are some who are going to be driven to the polls by a constellation of issues where the obama administration is going to draw a contrast. that is one of the most important things president obama has going for him. the keystones to how they hope to win re-election. he s going to hit that issue hard as you saw today mitt romney released a statement in which he did not say what he thought of the supreme court ruling and he did not get on camera today. he took no questions. his spokes people refused to answer the question about what he thought about the ruling. that tells you about the
egregious thing that forces a policeman to stop a driver who has a bad taillight on his car. he stops him or her. basically, not a big crime. let s put it that way, and then has to ask them for their immigration papers because they have an accent or look that suggests they might be from somewhere else or any reason for doing it. it gets into profiling. is this going to be a hot issue going into the conventions and election? chris, i don t think this is specifically going to be a hot issue. although i think it is part of a broader set of issues that the obama operation, the campaign and the white house, will try to exploit in terms of pointing out the stark differences between where the white house is and where mitt romney is on issues related to hispanic voters especially in a lot of these important swing states. arizona is not quite a swing state though will be relatively soon. maybe next election, maybe the
whether he agrees to this decision? so states out there have the right to craft their immigration policy if the federal government has failed to do so. i ll say it again and again and again for you. the governor understands that states have their own right on drafting policies to secure their own borders to address illegal immigration. mayor, it looks to me like the democrats have an easy walk here because it looks to me like your party is in strong position with the latino voter for the simple reason the other side has basically forfeited the credibility, the allegiance and it s hard to say a dramatic statement, but when you re coming off forced deportation, go ahead. your words. your thoughts. that s exactly right, chris. you hit it right on the head. virtually everybody covering governor romney today has said what they ve said all week. that he s been evasive, refused to answer.
election after that. who s going to vote? you re a political analyst. i am, too. not of your greatness perhaps, but who comes out of this result and says damn it, i m going to vote for sure this time because. who s most lickly to do that because of today? people angry about the fact they left standing the requirement that cops stop people because they look a certain way or the fact that they went the other way on the other provisions and got rid of them, no, you re still planning federal law here. who s this going to ignite? anybody? well, chris, i think look, as i said, it is part of a broader set of issues, right? i don t know that there are that many hispanic voters who are going to be driven to the polls by this issue specifically. i think there are some who are going to be driven to the polls by a constellation of issues where the obama administration is going to draw a contrast. that is one of the most important things president obama has going for him. the keystones to how
and staff writer for the great roll call. the most recent call from the boston globe up there in late march recently showed a very tight race between scott brown the guy in the truck, and elizabeth warren, who want to clean up wall street, they are in a dead heat. larry, what s your call? how does that look? well, it s april but i ll tell you the most important word, chris, in the senate vocabulary this year, coat tail. especially in massachusetts. we already know, it doesn t matter that romney was governor. president obama will win, i would say, 58, 60%, something like that in massachusetts. that s a giant problem for scott brown, whatever the preelection polls say. i think elizabeth warren has a good chance to pick up that seat. what do you think? i agree with larry. because of the coat tail effect of the dramatic obama win. and i think massachusetts is inherently a democratic state.