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Click on the 'RACE' link to open up page showing candidates' postitions and links to their campaign and/or official websites. See below grid for color code, explanations and candidate surveys ALABAMA Primary: June 3, 2008 Runoff: July 15, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District CANDIDATES: Bobbi Bright (D),Jay Love (R)* ARIZONA Primary: August 12, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District CANDIDATES: Raul M. Grijalva (D)*, Gene Chewning (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District CANDIDATES: Gabrielle Giffords (D)*, Derek Tidball (I), Tim Bee (R) CALIFORNIA Primary: June 3, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District CANDIDATES: Charles D. Brown (D), Tom McClintock (R RACE: U.S. Congress, 17th District CANDIDATES: Sam Farr (D)*, Jeff Taylor (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 35th District CANDIDATES: Maxine Waters (D)*, Ted Hayes (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 39th District CANDIDATES: Linda Sanchez (D)*, Diane Lenning (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 47th District CANDIDATES: Loretta Sanchez (D)*, Rosemarie "Rosie" Avilia (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 51st District CANDIDATES: Bob Filner (D)*, David Lee Joy (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 52nd District CANDIDATES: Mike Lumpkin (D), Duncan Duane Hunter (R), Michael Benoit (L) RACE: U.S. Congress, 53rd District CANDIDATES: Susan A. Davis (D)*, Michael P. Crimmins (R), COLORADO Primary: August 12, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District CANDIDATES: Diana DeGette (D)*, George Lilly (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District CANDIDATES: Doug Lamborn (R)*, Bidlack (D), Rich Hand (I) RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District CANDIDATES: Henry H. Eng (D), Mike Coffman (R) CONNECTICUT Primary: August 12, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District CANDIDATES: Joe Courtney (D)*, Sean Sullivan (R), Gregory S. Deshefy (G), Daniel J. Reale (L) FLORIDA Primary: August 26, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District CANDIDATES: Cliff Stearns (R)*, Timothy M. Cunha (D) RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District CANDIDATES: John L. Mica (R)*, Faye Armitage (D) RACE: U.S. Congress, 16th District CANDIDATES: Timothy Mahoney (D)*, Tom Rooney (R), RACE: U.S. Congress, 19th District CANDIDATES: Robert Wexler (D)*, Edward J. Lynch (R), Ben Graber (I) RACE: U.S. Congress, 22nd District CANDIDATES: Ron Klein (D)*, Allen B. West (R) GEORGIA Primary: July 15, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate CANDIDATES: Saxby Chambliss (R)*, James F. Martin (D), Allen Buckley (L) RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District CANDIDATES: Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D)*, Lee Ferrell (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District CANDIDATES: Jim Marshall (D)*, Rick Goddard (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 10th District CANDIDATES: Paul C. Broun, Jr. (R)*, William M. Saxon (D) RACE: U.S. Congress, 12th District CANDIDATES: John Barrow (D)*, John E. Stone (R), RACE: U.S. Congress, 13th District CANDIDATES: David Scott (D)*, Deborah Travis Honeycutt (R), IDAHO Primary: May 27, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate CANDIDATES: Larry LaRocco (D), Jim Risch (R) ,Marvin Richardson (C), Jerry Carter (I), Dr. Rex Ramell (I) ILLINOIS Primary: February 5, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate CANDIDATES: Dick Durbin (D)*, Steven Sauerberg (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 14th District CANDIDATES: Jim Oberweis (R), Bill Foster (D)* INDIANA Primary: May 6, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District CANDIDATES: Pete Visclosky (D)*, Mark J. Leyva (R) KANSAS Primary: August 5th RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Dennis Moore (D)*, Nick Jordan (R), Joel Balam (I), Joe Bellis (L) LOUISANA Primary: September 6, 2008 Runoff: October 4, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District CANDIDATES: Keith Hightower (D), John C. Fleming, Jr (R), Chris D. Gorman (R), Chester T. Kelley (R) MARYLAND Primary: February 12, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District CANDIDATES: Chris Van Hollen (D)*, Steve Hudson (R) MICHIGAN Primary: August 5, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District CANDIDATES: Dale E. Kildee (D)*, Matt Sawicki (R) MINNESOTA Primary: September 9, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Jigar Madia (DFL), Erik Paulsen (R), David Dillion (I) MISSISSIPPI Primary: March 11, 2008 Runoff: April 1, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate, Class I CANDIDATES: Roger Wicker (R)*, Ronnie Musgrove (D), RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District CANDIDATES: Bennie G. Thompson (D)*, Richard Cook (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District CANDIDATES: Gene Taylor (D)*, John McCay, III (R) NEW HAMPSHIRE Primary: September 9, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate CANDIDATES: John E. Sununu (R)*, Jeanne Shaheen (D), Kenneth E. Blevens (L), Shawn Girard (I) NEW JERSEY Primary: June 3, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate CANDIDATES: Frank R. Lautenberg (D)*, Richard Zimmer (R), Anthony B. Fisher (I), Daryl Mikell Brooks (I) RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District CANDIDATES: Frank Pallone, Jr. (D)*, Robert E. McLeod (R) NEW YORK Primary: September 9, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 18th District CANDIDATES: Nita M. Lowey (D)*, Jim C. Russell (R) NORTH CAROLINA Primary: May 6, 2008 Runoff: June 24, 2008 RACE: Governor CANDIDATES: Beverly Purdue (D), Pat McCrory (R), Michael Munfer (L) RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District CANDIDATES: Bob Etheridge (D)*, Danny Eugene Mansel (R), Willis G Adkins (L) RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District CANDIDATES: Mike McIntyre (D)*, Will Breazeale (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District CANDIDATES: Robin Hayes (R)*, Larry Kissell (D), RACE: U.S. Congress, 9th District CANDIDATES: Sue Myrick (R)*, Harry Taylor (D) RACE: U.S. Congress, 10th District CANDIDATES: Patrick McHenry (R)*,, Daniel Johnson (D), Bryan Greene (I) RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District CANDIDATES: Heath Shuler (D)*, Carl Mumpower (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 13th District CANDIDATES: Brad Miller (D)*, Hugh Webster (R) OREGON Primary: May 20, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District CANDIDATES: Greg Walden (R)*, Noah I. Lemas (D) Richard Hake (C) RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Earl Blumenauer (D)*, Delia Lopez (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District CANDIDATES: Peter DeFazio (D)*, Jaynee Germond (C) RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District CANDIDATES: Mike Erickson (R), Kurt Schrader (D), PENNSYLVANIA Primary: April 22, 2008 RACE: State Attorney General* John Morganelli (D) *Note: ABI does not actively solicit surveys for state and local candidates (other than governor), however, if a candidate for state or local office wishes to submit a survey, we will gladly post his or her responses accordingly. RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District CANDIDATES: Jason Altmire (D)*, Melissa Hart (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District CANDIDATES: Patrick Murphy (D)*, Tom Manion (R), Tom Lingenfelter (I) RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District CANDIDATES: Paul Kanjorski (D)*, Lou Barletta (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 12th District CANDIDATES: John P. Murtha (D)*, William Russel (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 16th District CANDIDATES: Joe Pitts (R)*, Bruce Slater (D), John Murphy (G), Dan Frank (C) RACE: U.S. Congress, 19th District CANDIDATES: Todd Platts (R)*, Phil J. Avillo, Jr. (D) SOUTH CAROLINA Primary: June 10, 2008 Runoff: June 24, 2008 RACE: U.S. Senate CANDIDATES: Lindsey Graham (R)*, Bob Conley (D), TENNESSEE Primary: August 7, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District CANDIDATES: Jim Cooper (D)*, John G. Donovan (R) TEXAS Primary: March 4, 2008 Runoff: April 8, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 15th District CANDIDATES: Ruben Hinojosa (D)*, Eddie Zamora (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 18th District CANDIDATES: Sheila Jackson Lee (D)*, John Faulk (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 29th District CANDIDATES: Gene Green (D)*, Eric Story (R) UTAH Primary: June 24, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Jason Chaffetz (R), Bennion L. Spencer (D) VIRGINA Primary: June 10, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District CANDIDATES: Robert Wittman (R)*, Keith Hummel (D) RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District CANDIDATES: Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (R)*, Tom Perriello (D), Sherman Wichter (I) WASHINGTON Primary: August 19, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Brian Baird (D)*, Michael R. Delavar (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District CANDIDATES: Jim McDermott (D)*, Steve Beren (R) WISCONSIN Primary: September 9, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District CANDIDATES: Paul Ryan (R)*, Marge Krupp (D), Joseph Kexel (L) RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Ron Kind (D)* Paul Stark (R) RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District CANDIDATES: David R. Obey (D)*, Daniel E. Mielke (R) WEST VIRGINIA Primary: May 13, 2008 RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District CANDIDATES: Nick Rahall (D)*, Marty Gearheart (R)

Each election on this page includes at least one congressional candidate who is making overall immigration reduction and improved immigration enforcement a major issue. Please e-mail us if you know of any other true reform candidates or have additional information on the races included here.

NAMES IN GREEN WITH YELLOW HIGHLIGHT are True Immigration Reform Candidates committed to ending illegal immigration and reducing overall immigration levels (as reflected in the 12 categories of the survey).

NAMES IN GREEN are incumbents who generally support reductions in illegal immigration.  They haven't taken the survey and their actions in Congress aren't quite good enough to qualify as a True Immigration Reform candidate. But their overall Recent immigration actions have earned them better than a "B" grade. 

NAMES IN PURPLE are candidates who generally support reductions but their answers on the survey did not quite qualify them as True Immigration Reform candidates.

NAMES IN RED are candidates who completed the immigration survey, but whose answers identify them as more opposed than supportive of overall immigration reductions (illegal and legal) -- or they are incumbents whose Recent immigration actions in Congress have earned them worse than a "C" grade.

NAMES WITH OUR SYMBOL preceding them indicate candidates whose survey responses best meet the criteria for being a "True Immigration-Reform Candidate" in races in which more than one candidate's name appears in green.

When you click on the link for a race ... You will see a grid that compares candidates' positions on various immigration issues. These positions have been ascertained by looking at actual voting records, statements in the media, and the surveys we have sent them and they have returned. We make changes in the comparison pages as new information emerges. If you see any discrepancies, have additional candidates to suggest, or if you want to make the case that we have highlighted a race that is inappropriate, please contact us.

ABI NEVER ENDORSES CANDIDATES. Our highlighting of some candidates is to help citizens know who is most likely to work for reducing overall immigration so citizens can factor that information into their voting decisions. But we realize that voters mark their ballot based on many issues and judgments about the character and leadership of a candidate. We don’t presume to suggest the best candidate for your overall needs and interests. And, Americans for Better Immigration is strictly non-partisan, with no preference for one party or another.

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