The Senate’s compromise immigration bill offers something for everyone to hate, including presidential candidates forced to confront the divisive issue. Unlike the war in Iraq, which separates lawmakers mainly along party lines, immigration fractures Republican and Democratic ranks from within: splitting business interests from social conservatives, dividing labor from Hispanic groups. ‘The issue is fraught with danger,’ said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster. ‘It’s one where it’s tough to please everybody within your base or coalition.’ For that reason, perhaps, the only major candidate who embraced the bipartisan proposal announced Thursday was Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who helped negotiate the agreement. However, McCain’s decision to step off the campaign trail and appear at a Capitol Hill news conference with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) raised some GOP eyebrows. ‘The American people want solutions to major problems,’ said John Weaver, a McCain strategist. ‘He’s running for president to do the tough things, and he’s doing them now.’ New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, also praised the bill. ‘This legislation makes a good start toward re-securing our southern border,’ he said Friday. But, like other Democratic candidates, he expressed concern about a temporary worker […]