Changes

Dobbs is impassioned about several issues, especially open immigration policies, the negative effects of big business on America's middle class, global warming, and the military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is more outspoken on his afternoon radio show, which made its debut in March 2008. On radion he has spoken often in favor of the "birther" conspiracy theory that President Obama is not a United States citizen. When he mentioned the citizenship issue on CNN over the summer, he raised the ire of his bosses and provoked criticism from progressive groups.  More recently, his coverage of immigration provoked protests by Hispanic groups.  

Dobbs is impassioned about several issues, especially open immigration policies, the negative effects of big business on America's middle class, global warming, and the military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is more outspoken on his afternoon radio show, which made its debut in March 2008. On radion he has spoken often in favor of the "birther" conspiracy theory that President Obama is not a United States citizen. When he mentioned the citizenship issue on CNN over the summer, he raised the ire of his bosses and provoked criticism from progressive groups.  More recently, his coverage of immigration provoked protests by Hispanic groups.  

==Candidate for high office?==

==Candidate for high office?==

Dobbs has stoked rumors he may run for office--perhaps for the Senate from New Jersey, perhaps for the White House in 2012. Early polling in Nov. 2009 shows he could attract up to 14% of the vote, hurting the Republican candidate. However, some of that is almost certainly a generic protest vote as an unnamed "some other candidate" picks up between six percent (6%) and nine percent (9%) of the vote in similar 2012 match-ups.<ref> See [http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2012/dobbs_in_2012_gets_up_to_14_of_vote_hurts_gop_chances Rasmussen Reports Nov. 25, 2009] </ref>   

Dobbs has stoked rumors he may run for office--perhaps for the Senate from New Jersey, perhaps for the White House in 2012. Early polling in Nov. 2009 shows he could attract up to 14% of the vote, hurting the Republican candidate. However, some of that is almost certainly a generic protest vote as an unnamed "some other candidate" picks up between six percent (6%) and nine percent (9%) of the vote in similar 2012 match-ups.<ref> See [http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2012/dobbs_in_2012_gets_up_to_14_of_vote_hurts_gop_chances Rasmussen Reports Nov. 25, 2009] </ref>

 

To soften his hard-earned reputation as a hard core enemy of immigrants, Dobbs told the Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair "amnesty." He now tells Hispanics, "I am one of your greatest friends."<ref>Peter Wallsten, "Dobbs Reaches Out to Latinos, With Politics in Mind," [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125910998942663259.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy '"Wall Street Journal'' Nov. 25, 2009] </ref>

 

 

==Quits CNN==

==Quits CNN==

On November 11, 2009, Dobbs announced that he was leaving CNN to pursue other opportunities to "engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day." <ref>http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/lou-dobbs-to-depart-cnn/</ref>

On November 11, 2009, Dobbs announced that he was leaving CNN to pursue other opportunities to "engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day." <ref>http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/lou-dobbs-to-depart-cnn/</ref>