Contra the trend of his campaign, John McCain appears to be making a comeback in New Hampshire. A new poll by the Boston Globe shows him running a narrow second to Mitt Romney. McCain seems to have capitalised upon the fading fortunes of Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani in the granite state, and perhaps is also reaping benefits from his recent endorsement by independent Joe Lieberman.
I'm willing to eat crow over my earlier pronouncement that McCain's campaign was a "train wreck", but it is curious that the senator is resurging despite his controversial stance on illegal immigration, to which most have attributed his electoral failings thus far. When asked for their favoured solution to the immigration crisis in this same poll, likely New Hampshire GOP voters overwhelmingly opted for either stopping the flow of illegal immigrants or deportation, not the 'path to citizenship' approach endorsed by McCain.
Could it be that immigration is playing less of a prominent role in the primary than watching Lou Dobbs would lead one to believe?
