Obama immigration shift a hit with voters, says new poll

[BDBoop]

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 percent 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 percent of Democrats supported it. Just 26 percent of independents sided with the Republican majority in the poll.

The results surely cheered Obama's re-election campaign, which has been working to reassemble the victorious coalition that powered his history-making 2008 win—but it faces an uphill fight in the face of deep pessimism about the economy.
Obama immigration shift a hit with voters, says new poll | The Ticket - Yahoo! News


Oblama blackens repubs eye

I saw that! So what does Romney do? Push the hispanic vote away even harder.

Romney vows to 'replace' Obama's immigration order

 

[California Girl]

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 percent 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 percent of Democrats supported it. Just 26 percent of independents sided with the Republican majority in the poll.

The results surely cheered Obama's re-election campaign, which has been working to reassemble the victorious coalition that powered his history-making 2008 win—but it faces an uphill fight in the face of deep pessimism about the economy.
Obama immigration shift a hit with voters, says new poll | The Ticket - Yahoo! News


Oblama blackens repubs eye

I saw that! So what does Romney do? Push the hispanic vote away even harder.

Romney vows to 'replace' Obama's immigration order

What does Romney do? Laugh at people who take a poll of 734 respondents as serious. So do I.

 

[Raiderdisliker]

The president is not changing the law. He is changing the priorities of INS in regard to deportation which is well within his powers of office. The executive branch of government, be it federal, state, or local decides which laws will be enforced.

"Changing ICE's priorities" is what he has done several times since he was elected. Every time he "changes priorities", he's moving a step closer to complete amnesty for all.

There is only two options. Deport them or absorb them into society. You guys on the right don't seem to realize that deporting 10 or 15 million people is not going happen.

Think of how much EMPLOYMENT it would provide to deport 10 or 15 million people!

 

[oldernwiser]

This has become the left's new catch phrase: You can't get rid of them!

You guys on the right need to understand though that if you eliminate the reasons for them to come here in the first place, then this issue simply dissolves on it's own.

Eliminate the DEA, and legalize the use and manufacture of all recreational drugs. This alone would destabilize the cartels in Central America and allow their governments to build their own infrastructure, making Mexico a nice place to live and raise a family again.

But... we're talking about the right here, so making sense probably doesn't do any good.