What Arizona immigration law might mean for midterm elections

Dante Chinni
Posted: 04.26.2010 / 8:16 AM PDT

... “I have heard nothing good about it,” Sylvia Rivera, a local business owner and seamstress, wrote in an e-mail. “Now I feel we live in a racist state as well. My Hispanic friends and family are not happy at all" ...

... President George W. Bush won these counties in 2004 by about nine percentage points. But in 2008, they went for then-Sen. Barack Obama by four points.

There are likely a number of reasons for that swing – the economy hurt the Republican Party almost everywhere in 2008. But one can’t ignore efforts by the GOP between 2004 and 2008 to tighten immigration laws. Those Republican efforts brought about large protests in Hispanic communities around the country ...

Troy Corder, who works in public relations in the area, writes in an e-mail that some in the tourism community are worried about unintended consequences. “It’s been a very big issue here over the last week. Lots of talk about losing conference and tourism visits. We are waiting to see if the MLB All-Star game moves" ...

http://patchworknation.csmonitor.com/csmstaff/2010/0426/what-arizona-immigration-law-might-mean-for-midterm-elections/

A bit spotty: you might get a bit more by clicking the link, but not much more

It's in 2011, but they'll have to decide soon if they want to move it.

Same for Spring Training in AZ -- and for the ballplayers as well.

Stupid, hideous law.

Would it still be fair for AZ to lose the AS game (in July '11) if the law is not on the books?