Posted on 04/03/2008 7:59:22 AM PDT by Will88
Among the findings:
* Only 34 percent of McCain voters, 42 percent of Clinton voters, and 52 percent of Obama voters correctly identified their candidate as favoring eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements.
* Of McCain voters, 35 percent mistakenly thought he favored enforcement that would cause illegals to return home, another 10 percent thought he wanted mass deportations, and 21 percent didn’t know his position.
Like Hillary!™ the more you know him the less you like him...
And a number of freepers attempt to bamboozle still more. (And then tell anyone who counters with facts to shut their stinking traps.)
Look at who McCain has on his staff, open borders zealot...
Sometimes I just throw my hands up and think that we deserve to be destroyed.
“# Whoever wins the presidency will face significant opposition to giving eventual citizenship to illegal immigrants. Just 25 percent of Republican and 50 percent of Democratic primary/caucus voters said they would support such an effort.”
More from the study above. - And these three candidates received great assistance from the media that almost never asked the really tough questions, or asked follow-ups to pin the candidates down on their positions. The one time (Russert) Hillary was pinned down on her position on driver’s licenses for illegals, that was the start of the unraveling of her huge lead.
I still get PO’d every time I think how McCain was allowed to weasel out of a question by citing ONE illegal alien mother of an Iraq MIA, using that as a reason for not considering the deportation of any of the 12 - 20 million.
“McCain Supporters Farthest Off the Mark”
McBackstabber supporters know his stance in favor of Amnesty quite well. I believe that is one of the main reasons that they support him.
Get on the McCain train, the sucker express, and see the wreck Mad Dog has in store for us. It’s going to be a doozy.
“Whoever wins the presidency will face significant opposition to giving eventual citizenship to illegal immigrants.”
Someone is laboring under the illusion that our ‘betters’ pay the slightest bit of attention to what the people want.
Deserve it or not, we’re going to get it.
Really, this is it, we’re done.
NJ voters re-elect criminals each cycle and they in turn, continue to destroy the State. NJ is beyond repair, it is a disaster. The people in NJ are the best complainers in the Nation concerning high taxes, cost of living, and a crumbling society.
Yet they pull the lever each and every election for the same crooks.
The 2008 Presidential election gives us no choice. It is pure garbage on each side of the fence.
How did this happen?
“McBackstabber supporters know his stance in favor of Amnesty quite well. I believe that is one of the main reasons that they support him.
That could only be true if this poll is completely invalid.
But, after Super Tuesday when McCain was declared the nominee, he’d only received about 35 - 38% of the votes cast to that point. He had his lead because of winner-take-all states that allowed him to win with well less that 50% in some cases. Plus, the non-McCain vote was scattered among three or four other candidates who received significant support.
He won with the lowest level of support from primary voters that I can ever recall. But this head case will probably claim a vast mandate for all his positions.l;
“How did this happen?”
I think three main reasons: Uninformed voters, winner-take-all primaries in the largest states, and the non-McCain vote was scattered among Romney, Huckabee, Thompson, and others who received significant numbers of votes in various states. That gave us a “winner” who’d gotten 35 - 38% of the vote through Super Tuesday.
But the uninformed voter I’m afraid has mostly done us in. Most probably just went with the war hero image Republican and didn’t look much further.
I bet most of his voters also favor keeping Guantanamo open, and favor torture when national security is at risk, and would disagree with McCain on many other issues if they had a clue where he stood.
I agree, amnesty is the end of the American experiment.
How I wish I didn’t agree with you both.
Just like the Clinton Mandate. He never got anything particularly close to a majority, yet always behaved has if each election was a landslide.
...while I personally abhor violence, I no longer wonder why people in the past have resorted to guillotines and firing squads.
“...while I personally abhor violence, I no longer wonder why people in the past have resorted to guillotines and firing squads.”
On another thread the point was discussed that the American Revolution was mostly about taxes, and a desire on the part of the colonists to be independent. Some colonies were pretty content living under British rule.
The transformation the USA is being forced through with de facto open borders immigration and other globalism initiatives dwarfs those complaints that set off the American Revolution.
Things are being forced on the American citizens that 70% and more of them oppose. The ingredients for some sort of uprising are there, whether it be protests or rage at our bought and paid for politicians, or something more demonstrative.
But I wouldn’t bet on it happening because so many citizens pay little attention to what’s being done until it’s too late.
This just proves that there is as big a percentage of Republican morons as Democrats; there are just way fewer of them as there are many more registered Democrats.
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