Tom Schaller wonders whether John McCain will ruin Democrats' chances at making some gains in the Southwest.
McCain represents Arizona, the fastest growing state in the nation's fastest growing and increasingly pivotal electoral region, the Southwest. Couple his home region advantage with his prominent leadership role on the immigration issue and the man whom anti-amnesty conservatives openly deride as "Juan McCain" is, in theory at least, the Republicans' best chance to keep the Hispanic-heavy Southwest in the GOP's column this November. "It completely screws [the Democrats' Southwest ambitions] up," McCain adviser Charles Black recently told the Washington Post. "We nominated the one person who will not suffer that backlash."
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