Posted on 06/19/2012 8:12:32 AM PDT by YankeeReb
President Barack Obama's high-profile shift on immigration last week — announcing plans to grant temporary legal status to as many as 800,000 undocumented people brought to American soil as children — has the overwhelming support of likely voters in a new Bloomberg poll released Tuesday.
Sixty-four percent of them — and 66% of independents, the frequently up-for-grabs voters thought to decide elections — support the president's decision. The White House has forcefully (and rather implausibly) denied that Obama sought political gain from his announcement. But as recently as March 2011, he had said publicly that he lacked the power to halt such deportations.
The Bloomberg survey found that just 30 percent of likely voters disagreed with the president's plan. Fifty-six percent of likely Republican voters opposed it, while 86% of Democrats supported it. Just 26% of independents sided with the Republican majority in the poll.
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I was in FL after Castro released his criminals with Jimmy Carter's approval. There were plenty of reports of the new arrivals committing ugly crimes against Americans. As far as I was concerned, Carter committed these crimes against each and every American that was victimized (including murder).
That is why some democrats are not showing up at the dem convention and a dem congressman said Obama is just wrong on this subject.....their internal polls are showing just how popular this idea was.
When you get polls like this you need to know who they polled...the Hispanic community, collage professors, the democrat national convention goers or New Yorkers. This poll means nothing without the very detailed demographics.
For the record, I still have absolutely no problem with immigration which conforms to our Constitutional laws, so long as it treats all world areas equally.
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