With the debate over immigration executive action in full swing, here are three key points regarding public opinion and the polling instruments used to measure it: 1) If you ask a misleading question, you’ll get an inaccurate response. Polling from USA Today released this week asks, “Should President Obama...
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As we’ve been saying for quite some time, President Obama has promised that he will act on immigration before the end of the year, but many — including Sen. Harry Reid — are are saying that it could happen sooner rather than later. But in all of the news coverage...
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Despite the threats and overheated claims by Republicans, executive action on immigration would be a good thing for the country. Below, America’s Voice offers six reasons why President Obama should follow through on his pledge and deliver: 1. Someone needs to do something productive on immigration. Since Republicans have...
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As we wait for President Obama to announce his plans for executive action on immigration, anti-immigrant Republicans are in full battle mode. They are spitting out talking points designed to undermine the President — without taking any responsibility for their own failures on the issue. Some pundits still seem...
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Immigration news took over front pages nationwide this week with reports that Obama’s much-anticipated executive action for immigrants is coming — and soon. Republicans kicked into high gear, with all sorts of colorful and fiery metaphors, about their intentions to battle Obama. But as leading editorial boards and other pundits are...
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November 12, 2014 2014 was a wave election, but it wasn’t a referendum on immigration. Here are three takeaways and one lesson...
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President Obama’s pledge to take executive action on immigration is center stage in post-election Washington. Here are four key points to understand: President Obama has made it clear that he’s going to lean into the issue and not wait yet again for Republicans to act: As we have highlighted, if...
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There’s No More Time to Waste; 11 Million Lives Hang in the Balance With Tuesday’s midterm elections now over, the President must turn back to making progress on policy issues like immigration. Here’s a quick Friday recap of why he must use his existing legal authority to act immediately...
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As we’ve written about before, exit polls dramatically misrepresent the Latino vote. We first covered this issue all the way back in 2010, but it was the 2012 cycle where we saw some of the craziest exit poll results we’d ever seen. Here’s what we said about those results back in 2012. Did you...
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A new Washington Post editorial counsels President Obama to wait on executive action on immigration. According to the editorial board, while the President is “certainly right on the policy,” and “might be fed up” with waiting on Republicans to act, he should nonetheless “seize the moral high ground and test GOP leaders’ seriousness about cooperating...
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