When Will Boehner and His Caucus Allow this Majority View to be Expressed in the House? As a series of series of newpolls and analysis highlight, support for passing a bill with citizenship continues to grow and diversify: An Overwhelming Majority of the American Public Supports Immigration Reform with...
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Jul 12, 2013
On June 13-July 5, 2013, Gallup conducted a poll. Results are based on telephone interviews with 4,373 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, including oversamples of black and Hispanic adults. For results based on this sample of national adults, one...
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Quinnipiac August 2, 2013 A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 64 percent of voters support the Senate immigration bill, including 60 percent of Republicans. How to square this with polls showing that Republicans oppose a path to citizenship? One possibility: when polls offer a stark choice — do you support citizenship or not —...
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Cross-posted from Latino Decisions by Adrian Pantoja, Ph.D., Senior Analyst, Latino Decisions on 07/11/2013 It is well documented that anti-Latino rhetoric and policies by Republican candidates since the mid-1990s led Latino voters to abandon the GOP in favor of the Democratic Party (Bowler and Segura 2012). For example, research on California shows...
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Last Sunday, David Brooks of the New York Times had this to say on NBC’s Meet the Press: I’ve seen a lot of intellectually weak cases in this town. I’ve rarely seen as intellectually a weak case as the case against the Senate immigration bill. The Republicans say they...
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Between July 5th and 7th, 2013 PPP conducted a Poll surveyed 837 likely 2014 voters in CA-10, 552 in CA-21, 657 in CA-31, 692 in CO-6, 696 in MN-2, 544 in NV-3, and 543 in NY-11 between July 5th and 7th. The margins of error for the surveys are +/-3.4%, +/-4.2%, +/-3.8%, +/-3.7%,...
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Below is a press release on new polling from Public Policy Polling and the Alliance for Citizenship: PPP Pollster Says: “House Republicans Could Face Voter Backlash” As House Republicans get ready to hold their immigration summit on Wednesday, July 10, Public Policy Polling released seven new polls today showing voters—including...
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Since the last election, when Mitt Romney lost Latino voters by more than a 3-1 margin, leading Republicans have emphasized the need for the GOP to better reach out to minorities and broaden their base. The RNC released an entire report on the inroads the Republicans must make, while GOP legislators from...
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The day before tomorrow’s House Republican internal meeting on immigration, Latino Decisions, America’s Voice, CHIRLA Action Fund and SEIU outlined the opportunities and challenges House Republicans face as they decide how to move forward this year. Said Professor David Damore, Senior Analyst for Latino Decisions and Associate Professor of Political...
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Cross-posted at Latino Decisions Despite growing popular support among non-Latinos both nationally and in key swing states in favor of immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship, the conventional wisdom suggests that the bipartisan legislation that recently passed the Senate faces an uphill battle in the Republican controlled...
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