Well, it was part of the song, anyway.

Christian Right Failed to Sway Voters on Issues

Well, maybe it’s not a surprise, or shouldn’t be.

But these folks are the only faction of the conservative movement to lament that it wasn’t just the singer – Romney – but it was their own particular part of the national, movement conservative song – specifically, their Christian clericalism – that got flat rejected by majorities of the voters.

But even they aren’t admitting majorities also rejected the Ayn Rand political economy of the entire conservative movement, including them.

And it’s not like they’re going to give up trying.

So it looks like the feminists have won solidly and the churches, as employers, will have to include contraceptive coverage in their group health plans.

Now if the girls would just stop lying that it’s already included and help pressure the Democrats to make employers include coverage for Viagra a lot of Olde White Men would be a lot happier with this result.

Afterthought.

Without specific evidence like polling to back it up I would not be quick to assume mass Latino support for Obama was a matter of immigration policy trumping their own supposed religious conservatism, as is done in this article.

Latino immigrants need not to be deported, sure.

But there is no chance the Republicans will actually do that.

Latinos also need the benefits of the progressive welfare and labor-protective state, both legals and illegals.

Like non-whites and the many millions of lower-class whites who vote massively for Democrats, perhaps they know where their bread is buttered.

Anyway, Democrats better hope so, because it looks like the Republican Party is about to pull the rug out from under them, on this one, and finally do a deal that regularizes the status of illegals currently in the country.

Republicans Reconsider Positions on Immigration

Even though doing so will cost them some votes – who can say how many? – among working class whites.

Once immigration is “fixed” and the issue goes away, what will Latinos do?

Many conservatives are apparently expecting many of them will swing right.

We’ll see.

Oh, says the article,

In exit polls on Tuesday, 77 percent of Hispanic voters said immigrants here illegally should have a chance to apply for legal status, while 18 percent said they should be deported.

In the polls, 65 percent of all voters favored legal status for those immigrants, while 28 percent said they should be deported.

This is not an indication of support for a continuing policy of high legal immigration.

But that is a distinction no one wants to make, and the deal to regularize the position of illegals, given Wall Street conservatives, agribusiness, the construction industry, and libertarians are players, will be pushing for more, not less, low-wage immigration.

Another little sellout of the American working class by both liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans.

Says the article,

The emerging coalition [on the right, for "immigration reform"] includes technology companies seeking more visas for high-skilled immigrants, growers seeking legal farm workers, evangelical pastors responding to huge growth in their churches from Latino immigrants and young undocumented immigrants whose protests pushed the White House to offer the deportation reprieves.

Last month Grover Norquist, the fiscal hawk who is president of Americans for Tax Reform, said in a speech in Indianapolis that more immigration, including legal status for those here illegally, was vital to economic revival.

As we all know, the Republican Party lives in the World According to Grover.

As for liberals and Democrats in general, they are committed to denouncing opposition to significant immigration, even if only of low-wage immigrants, as racist.

Yes, it's baloney.

But what can you do?

As has often been pointed out, low-wage immigration hurts the entire American working class by putting downward pressure on wages and specifically hurts Americans competing for low-wage jobs, most especially American blacks.

Those who have said so have, of course, been denounced by liberals as racists.