Posted on 09/01/2015 5:40:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The headline from Investors Business Daily on their own poll uses the word shock Shock Poll: 59% Back Trump On Deportation of Illegals. But as Jared Peterson wrote on these pages yesterday, for the last two years Rasmussen polling has demonstrated a huge gap between the overwhelming majority of Americans and the political establishment of the GOP on immigration policy. The IBD polling, which mentions mandatory deportation, reinforces this stunning disconnect between politicians and the people they supposedly serve, a chasm that Donald Trump has spotted and used to his huge advantage. IBD editorializes:
The latest IBD/TIPP Poll asked 913 adults coast to coast if they "support or oppose mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants in the U.S." Not surprisingly, 87% of Trump supporters back the proposal.What's surprising is that 59% of the overall public does as well. Mandatory deportation gets majority support in all age groups except 18-24, every income group, among both women and men, at every level of educational achievement, and in rural, urban and suburban regions.
More interesting still is the fact that 64% of independents and 55% of moderates support deportation.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
60% agreeing to anything in this day and age is pretty significant. You can’t get 60% of the people to agree that the sun rises in the east.
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