Howard Dean: Obama's new immigration policy is "a brilliant move" (video)

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57454785/howard-dean-obamas-new-immigration-policy-is-a-brilliant-move/?tag=thisMorningLatest

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean praised President Obama's new policy to provide work permits to children of undocumented immigrants, saying it's good policy and good politics.

"This is a brilliant move on the president's part, because Governor Romney is on record as saying he would veto the DREAM Act," Dean said on "Face the Nation," referring to the Democrats' legislation to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth.

"If he says anything in favor of what the president did, he will alienate the right wing, which has been his problem all along; and if he denies what the president has said, he digs a deeper hole with Latinos," Dean said.

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Governor Dean said "people like to see what the president did," and shot back at Graham, saying, "What's breathtaking is a Republican senator who had a hand in killing all the immigration legislation is now complaining that the president couldn't get immigration reform through."

[pinto]

1. Yep.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Nope. Hispanics - voting for Obama already & not for Romney.

The DREAM act leaves things status quo. No change.

Even if Romney improved his changes with the latino vote, it wouldn't matter much. The Repubs are so far in the hole with that vote, there is no catching up.

What really matters is the independent vote. Now, if THEY are aching for the DREAM act, then maybe. But somehow I think the independent vote doesn't care much about that. They care about jobs.