Many people believe that conservatives killed the immigration bill yesterday. The conservative base certainly has made a lot of noise in the last couple of days, and the far majority of those who oppose the bill are Republicans, but… it’s not that simple. Simon explains that “this bill didn’t fail (as the WaPo contends) because the center couldn’t persuade the fringe; I suggest that it failed because the center didn’t support it. Partisanship didn’t kill this bill – bipartisan consensus did.”
Look at the results: Simon surely has a point. It should also not be forgotten that polls show that the majority of Americans oppose this bill. Not just the majority of conservative Republicans.
UPDATE
It seems that they changed the link. Replaced the old link with the new one.
