LatinNews Daily - 19 May 2011

Region: Immigration topped the list of voters' priorities in the Iowa caucus on 3 January, but dropped down the list to second or third in the New Hampshire and Michigan primaries. The state of the US economy appears to have jumped up voters' list of concerns. The two issues are linked, however. In the 1992 election - the last time the US held a presidential election in an economic downturn - the populist anti-immigration candidate, Ross Perot, won just enough votes to tip the election away from the rightwing candidate, George H Bush.