This was cool to see. The immigration debate really is a hot button issue and I personally think will be the number one issue to voters come November. I don’t know if this will have any significancy on a Tancredo candidacy, however. First I heard he was going to run, then I heard he isn’t, so who knows.

I also want to note that John McCain came nowhere close to being at the top, and that’s not just in Michigan, that’s in every straw poll that has happened so far. Despite all the media hype about McCain and their constant referal to him as the front runner, it’s all BS and McCain knows it.

Rep. Tom Tancredo’s get-tough-first attitude on immigration reform is having a positive impact on his possible presidential run in 2008. The Colorado Republican won tonight’s GOP straw poll in Macomb County, Mich., located in the Detroit metro area.

Tancredo took about 18% of the vote of 325 votes cast at the Lincoln Day Dinner. Although it was only a plurality on a fractured GOP ballot, Tancredo beat out GOP heavyweights Rudy Giuliani, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.