>>I’d say that, more than anything else, Bush’s deliberate refusal to enforce immigration laws, and his pushing amnesty time after time, that those factors are more responsible for the collapse of the Republican party than anything else.<<
Also, he “hinted” that those who opposed amnesty (or even might support amnesty if the immigration were truly under control, but were opposed to the dishonest “immigration reform” bill last year) were “anti-immigrant.” As long 80% of the Dems and many of the so-called “Republicans” are chanting the same mantra, no one who has the good of this nation at heart will be POTUS.
I think the answer there is that not many voters make immigration and the illegal invasion their vote deciding issue. Many surveys last year showed about 50% of Dems opposed amnesty, also, and 70%n of all Americans, and a high percentage of black Americans.
But people still vote the economy, old party loyalties, and just the impression of how things are going. But some day, it may come as a shock that the illegal invasion issue was the most important issue of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.