Across Long Island, the candidates who tried to run as hard-liners on the immigration question were conspicuously absent from the victory lists.

“It is worth taking note of a particular subset of losers in the Nov. 8 elections. They were the candidates who tried to win votes through appeals to fear and anti-immigrant resentment. Across Long Island, the candidates who tried to run as hard-liners on the immigration question were conspicuously absent from the victory lists. For all the talk of suburban outrage at the supposed onslaught of day laborers and Latino gangs, it wasn’t the hyperventilating candidates who won.

In Brookhaven, Edward Hennessey ran against a hard-core, deport-’em-all candidate, Robert DiCarlo, in the Republican primary for town supervisor. Mr. Hennessey was more moderate on that issue than Mr. DiCarlo - a little, anyway - and he won that race. But in the general election, Mr. Hennessey remained the go-to guy for the xenophobe vote. He lost to Brian Foley.”

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