Election results -- what you can do next‏

An interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about affecting this year's elections. This follows this post about current happenings on the immigration front and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso across from the recent Juarez shooting. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.


Election results -- what you can do next‏

ELECTION RESULTS SHOW NEED FOR YOU TO PUSH MORE CANDIDATES TO TAKE IMMIGRATION SURVEY To see what we have to say about the immigration implications of the big Tuesday Primary elections, click here. Perhaps the most important thing you can do this year for true immigration reform is to make sure that congressional candidates in your state fill out our immigration survey. It is during a campaign season when incumbents, for example, feel the most vulnerable. While you may hope to unseat the incumbent, the fact is that the vast majority of incumbents will win their Primaries and will be returned to Congress in the General elections of November. So the best way to ensure a change in Congress on immigration is to try to get some decent promises out of incumbents -- even as you may be working hard to defeat them. I really need you to contact candidates for Senate and the House in your area, and press them to take the survey.
STEP 1: Go to the ELECTIONS drop-down box in the black navigation bar near the top of our web pages. (Or click here.)
STEP 2: Click on the state on the map that has the contests you are following.
STEP 3: If a candidate or contest does not show up on the state page, that means no survey has been returned. Please click on any of the other races to go to an actual candidates comparison grid where you will see instructions for sending a survey to a Member of Congress. Our experience is that few candidates -- and fewer incumbents -- want to take a stand on a survey. But they will do so when they feel enough pressure from voters. The most important thing is to get the first candidate to take the survey. Then, other candidates feel the pressure. Here's the survey. We are happy to have interns from Duke University this summer helping us with the monumental task of posting on our website every single race for U.S. House, U.S. Senate and governor. We hope within the next two weeks to have all of them posted. Then, it is up to you to get as many grids filled as possible by persuading candidates to take the survey. Last-minute pressure from many of you caused a couple dozen candidates to send their survey in just before the elections this week. As much as you might like to throw out most of the incumbents, the fact is that the vast majority of them will win their Primaries and the General election in November. The best way to change the way Congress next year deals with immigration is to push incumbents to make some promises to us during the campaign (even as you might be working for and hoping for their defeat).