{"id":1023,"date":"2011-11-16T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2011-11-16T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:42:38","slug":"the-arizona-immigration-bill-seems-to-have-created-a-new-swing-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/11\/the-arizona-immigration-bill-seems-to-have-created-a-new-swing-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arizona Immigration Bill Seems To Have Created A New Swing State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors are true, Rep. Chad Campbell, the Democratic leader of the Arizona state House, told TPM Wednesday: the state best known for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the toughest immigration law in the land really is a swing state in 2012. And Democrats have SB 1070 to thank for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d hesitate to say it was ever good that it was passed,\u201d Campbell said in a sitdown interview. \u201cBecause of the damage it did to the community, damage to the economy. But I do think it motivated a lot of people, especially people in the Latino community, to get involved and it energized them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that\u2019s the final outcome of it, so be it,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s a good thing, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell\u2019s not the only one saying that. The Obama campaign has said Arizona can be a target next year, thanks largely to a fired up Latino base.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/11\/blowback-the-arizona-immigration-bill-gop-heralded-now-a-boon-to-dems.php?ref=fpb\">The Arizona Immigration Bill Seems To Have Created A New Swing State | TPM 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors are true, Rep. Chad Campbell, the Democratic leader of the Arizona state House, told TPM Wednesday: the state best known for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the toughest immigration law in the land really is a swing state in 2012. And Democrats have SB 1070 to thank for it. \u201cI\u2019d hesitate to say it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[566,42,641,642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}