March 17, 2008 4:16 PM
On the same day that Suffolk rejected a bill targetting immigrants, Idaho also killed a similar bill. To complete the third leaf of this political shamrock, John McCain warned Republican candidates that they were shooting themselves in the foots by going after immigrants.
On NPR Morning Edition today, John McCain suggested that strong anti-immigrant rhetoric contributed to two recent, high-profile GOP Congressional losses of former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who badly lost to Sen. Bob Casey in 2006, and Jim Oberweis, who lost the heavily Republican seat of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert this month in a special election. I know that there have been some races, like here in Pennsylvania, where Senator Santorum emphasized that issue [immigration] and lost by a large number, McCain said on NPR.