While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

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When John McCain was championing for immigration reform in 2007, never did he think it would place him in the position he is in today.

With only 21 days left until the 2008 Presidential Election, John McCain is positioning himself to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin, well below President George W. Bush’s 2004 performance.

Polls have positioned Senator Obama winning the most amount of Latino voters of any Democrat in more than a decade, while McCain is sitting at a dismal 30 percent, closer to Senator Bob Dole’s horrid 1996 result than to Bush’s historic 40% four years ago.

McCain is carrying quite a bit of baggage on both arms, as he appears to be getting no credit from Latino voters for his past support for immigration reform, while in the other hand he treads slowly with the built up hostility of the Republican Party’s take on illegal immigration.

And his attacks on Obama for immigration reform have been non-existent, who was once thought to have taken a lethally liberal stance by supporting granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

And as the four states with the largest Hispanic populations take center stage, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, what was once a ray of hope for Senator McCain has emerged as a clear weakness.

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