79% say they favor a guest worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. for a fixed period of time ...Only 47% of those polled say they support the tougher measure backed by some House conservatives, deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries.
"How did they conduct this poll and get what appears to be a totally contradictory result?"
It was a poll tweaked to fit agendas of the Senate bill. For authority it validated earlier polls saying the contrary. It's MSM mischief.
79% + 47% = 126%
Only in polls and sports peptalks can one get more than 100 percent.