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I suspect Tester and like-minded politicians can be induced to support a path to citizenship for illegals. As I said, it's a path, not a magic wand.

And as I've pointed out--and you echo--the move won't be made til after 2008.

By then the probably overwhelming support of the Democratic presidential candidate by Hispanics-- and their growing clout-- will have the effect I cited.

If you don't think the Democrats will offer a path to citizenship, exactly why not?

If you think more restrictionists will be elected:

1) Why was that not true in 2006? Many lost in 2006.
2) The Republicans have the most vulnerable candidates in 2008--and the most restrictionists. Many will disappear--and their places will be not be taken by Democratic restrictionists, but by people more inclined to inclusion--since that's what the US has been about--and certainly what Democrats have been about for quite a while.    If you don't believe this, why not?