Posted on 11/19/2015 7:23:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A new Bloomberg poll shows that a significant majority of Americans oppose bringing Syrian refugees into the U.S. By a 53-to-28 margin, Americans disagree with President Obama and many Democrats about admitting the refugees. Another 11% think that only Christian Syrians should be allowed in.
The poll also shows that terrorism concerns about ISIS have risen to the top of American's concerns.
More broadly, terrorism and the Islamic State group surged to the top of Americans’ concerns immediately following the deadly attacks, even as Republicans and Democrats remain divided over how best to address threats. The percentage of those rating terrorism or the Islamic State as top concerns has nearly doubled since the poll last was taken in September. At the same time, those who think the U.S. is on the right track fell to 23 percent, the lowest rating in more than three years. Obama’s disapproval rating rose to 51 percent, up 4 percentage points since September.
These trends may offer momentum to the Republican leaders of Congress as they begin hearings and consider threatening a government shutdown over Obama’s Syria policies, even as 64 percent of Americans say Islam is an inherently peaceful religion.
Terror in general, and specifically ISIS, the group that claimed responsibility for last week’s attacks, are cited by a combined 35 percent of Americans as the top issue in the survey conducted Nov. 15-17. That’s about the same as concerns about jobs, immigration, health care and the federal deficit combined. ISIS alone is the top issue for 21 percent of Americans, up from 11 percent in September. Terrorism is the top issue for 14 percent, up from 7 percent two months ago.
Despite ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Russia, 53 percent of Americans favor a U.S.-Russia military coalition
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One of my uncles by marriage was a German American, born in this country. He was a WWI vet and medic in battles in France.
After the war and when the German economy tanked, his parents and other German Americans brought over family members from Germany.
Some were good people and some were or became Nazis. This uncle turned these nazis into the FBI after we declared war on Germany/Japan. The men were arrested
The arrested men were put into federal prisons, and the females were put into former old hospitals with guards at the gates.
After the war was over, the Nazi men were sent back to Germany. Some of the women were given the option to stay. Many of those women stayed here.
“Islam is at war with us. A brutal, deadly, holy war. It is the enemy.”
“Amen! And unlike the turkey in the WH now both Trump and Cruz know it and are not afraid to say.”
Amen to you both, and I add another importance being WE know it.
I am convinced that BHO is one of “them.”
Brainwashed by the America-hating, Judeo-Christian-hating media.
You’re correct, my FRiend.
Stand firmly with conservativea, Jim!
It’s a good thing we have conservative, principled Republican leaders like Paul Ryan are fighting for the American people and against the Obama administration on this issue...oh, wait a minute...
NO Muslims from ANY country.
NO moratorium, just no more Muslims ever. They can never be trusted. 3-4 million need to be exterminated to get our point across to them.
GO CRUZ GO
Close down the Mosques.
Turn them into a slaughter house first
After they are cleaned up, turn them into a butcher shop
GO TRUMP GO
Build that beautiful wall on our Southern border.
BUT in the mean time put the 1st Infantry and the some iron down there to seal it up. Kill anything that comes across. The secondary line should consist of State Militia and/or Civilian militia that know the landmarks and terrain/smuggling trails. These militia know the trails and can mop up.
DEPORT or hunt down all illegal invaders and load them in to rail stock cars and ship them out.
GO AMERICA GO>>>>>>>>
Or mine. Or my children's. Well said.
I would refer you to my tagline, sir.
Great story Grampa - thanks for sharing...
Like almost everyone I had never heard of this... I’m surprised.
Read about how Charles Martel dealt with an Islamic incursion into Gaul in the 8th century...
'Nuff said.
They will come here in hordes thanks to the efforts of individual American bleeding hearts and guilt-ridden nuts.......as well as religious and charitable organizations just aching to "re-unite families" and also aching to latch on to the pertinent federal grants the governments dishes out to those groups who know how to game the system on our dimes.
All in the name of "compassion" and "love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself", of course.
Liberal Catholic Charities, liberal Lutheran Charities, Muslim imams and their mosque members and others, have been doing so for a long time now while feeling SO good about themselves as they quietly but systematically destroy our culture and security.
Leni
Right on mark, Leni. You get it! They all (Rats & Repubs) will keep pushing the cheap labor express, as demanded by their rich donors. Even the very conservative candidates push for more H1-B visa’s, more legal immigrants, Obamatrade, etc to satisfy their rich donors.
AFter a very long time we have an electable candidate running who is NOT in the pockets of his rich donors. If Trump does not win, goodbye to middle class lifestyle for next 50 years.
On a similar note, I’d LOVE LOVE LOVE to see some polling on the #BlackLivesMatter group. I have a feeling their approval rating would be about the same as Congress’s...
I hope you are well. It is amazing how bad the media is in this country.
Whose country is this? Does it belong to the American people or the corrupt politicians?
28 Governors, who are elected by the people, have put the kibosh to it.
The Republican GOP Candidates, who are breaking records in terms of viewership for their debates, have had the leading candidates come out against it...and it has not hurt their poll numbers.
I have been tracking the averages of the four or five top polls for the GOP Presidential Race for the last 12 weeks or so.
At this point the clear front runners are Trump, Carson, Cruz, and Rubio. Fiorina was in the top group for a few weeks, but she has dropped off steadily. A big recent trend is Carson dropping off 3-4 percentage points. Trump is maintaining his lead at just under 30% and Cruz has climbed into 3rd place at 15.5%. HE has been jockeying with Rubio for 3rd place, with Rubio now around 10%.
IMHO, they should limit the future debate to the top five contenders and allow the others remaining in the race to have t it in the pre-debate, 2nd tier debate each time.
Here's my numbers from the latest polls:
...and here's my running chart since September 1st.
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