Watch this weekend clip between Fusion’s Jorge Ramos and the RNC Chief Reince Priebus below. In it, Ramos asks Priebus why Republicans continue to demonize immigrants and attack executive action even though the party knows it must do better with Latino voters. Priebus has the gall to claim that...
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Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the House Majority Whip, has been in trouble in recent weeks over news that he once gave a speech to a white supremacist group. The GOP is already heading toward major demographic trouble in 2016 and beyond, and moreover they can’t seem to stop doing...
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A range of recent polling finds overwhelmingly Latino support in favor of the recently announced executive actions on immigration. As is true for any new issue, the question wording matters hugely and can influence the specific results. In particular, recent poll questions that describe the substance of the president’s...
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Cross-posted from Latino Decisions: New Poll Shows 2016 Latino Votes Will Follow Candidates who Want to Continue and Extend President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration During the November 2014 midterms Latino voters said the number one issue they wanted Congress and the President to address was immigration reform. Today,...
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New Gallup approval numbers and a growing body of polling demonstrate that President Obama’s recent executive actions on immigration are overwhelmingly popular among Latino voters. As Republicans hold hearings today that unofficially kick off their attempts to block and overturn this sensible step forward on immigration, the warning signs...
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This morning, Presente.org, NALACC, Mi Familia Vota, and Latino Decisions released a new poll of Latino voters on President Obama’s new executive action for immigrants — and the findings should scare the heck out of Republicans. While both Republican members of Congress and the right-wing base are losing it over Obama’s announcement, fully 89%...
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Cross-posted from Latino Decisions In January 2013, President Obama chose Del Sol High School in Las Vegas to make his remarks outlining his administration’s comprehensive immigration reform principles. Part victory rally, part policy speech, the event was a clear thank-you to the state’s Latino and organized-labor communities for their...
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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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Some of the GOP spin, after last week’s midterms elections, is that the party has a mandate for its anti-immigrant, restrictionist ideas. That’s something Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) recently tried to claim — that last week’s results are one reason why President Obama should not announce executive action for immigrants. Markos...
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Excellent post from dreaminonempty at DailyKos about Latino voters titled: Most of the data on Latino voters is bogus. Here are the real poll numbers. And, as you’ll see, the post does a deep dive into poll numbers in key states, using data collected by Latino Decisions: Recently, there was...
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