>People vote out of fear and there ar two great fears today.
>The war and illegal immigration.

If that's the case, why wouldn't anti-immigration Republicans win their primaries and earn the right to represent their party in races against the Democrats, which they would (of course) win, since the public is so concerned about all the illegals?

That didn't happen. Instead, we saw more Democrats win, which is the opposite of what you'd expect if people were voting out of fear, and were primarily swayed by the immigration issue.

It *may* be the case that die-hard Republican supporters were/are so disgusted by Bush & Co. (partly due to immigration, partly due to their handling of the war, partly due to the ethics violations) that they just stayed home on election day, whereas folks who only occasionally vote (but vote Democrat when they do) were energized by their opposition to the Iraq war and decided to get off their asses and vote.