Polls Matter On Immigration: Tracking The Obama Emphasis Shift

From my Time.com story on President Obama’s immigration speech Thursday, some key polling numbers that are shaping the White House behavior:

Obama was elected into office on the promise that he would tackle immigration in 2009. He decided, however, to give priority to health care reform, financial regulatory reform and energy legislation. As recently as two months ago, on Air Force One, just as Senate leaders were announcing a new push on immigration reform, the President was caught in a moment of candor. “We’ve gone through a very tough year and I’ve been working Congress very hard, so I know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue,” he said of immigration reform.

“That pretty much killed chances of reform [this year],” says Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of America’s Voice, a group that supports comprehensive reform. “Unless there is some miracle, we are talking about early next year.”

Around the same time as Obama’s Air Force One comment, the Gallup poll noted a significant drop in Hispanic support for the President, a major concern for White House political advisers who need Hispanic votes in 2010 and ’12 in swing states like Nevada, Colorado and Florida. Gallup measured a 6-point drop in Hispanic job approval, from 63% to 57% between April and May. The drop was 11 points among Hispanics who were interviewed by Gallup in Spanish. During the same period, Gallup noted no change in the job approval for Obama among non-Hispanic black or white voters.

See the Gallup polling results here.

The Phony War: Obama and Romney Are Debating Character, Not Policy

More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney’s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there’s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney’s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low on the wealthy isn’t especially popular, at least not at any level of detail beyond a blithe promise to shrink the deficit. Meanwhile, Obama’s signature first-term achievements, like health care, the stimulus and Wall Street reform, are all unpopular or tricky to sell. (The Dodd-Frank bill is the most popular of these, but hyping it means offending wealthy donors.) So what we’re getting instead is a superficial duel about character–and, worse, one that’s based on the largely false premise that the better man can better “manage” the economy back to health.

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If the Hispanics wish, they could support the GOP. I think, and I might be wrong although I doubt that I am wrong, the GOP considers most Hispanics (esp. Mexicans) to be unwanted immigrant beggarly Hobo’s.

I read the 1070 crazy anti-immigrant law in Arizona and I laugh. Brewer has beaten BUZ in the polls and that is what she wanted…. It is a crying shame that so many people in America buy the hype that the immigrants are these drug selling killers in AZ. Give me a break.

People who are part of drug cartels etc. get killed. It comes with the territory, AZ is no different. Are there more crimes in AZ because of the so called illegal immigrants???
Why are the companies who hire these illegals not sanctioned? Why is e-filing not used to verify status??

The Hispanic in AZ is treated with the fear and disdain as some North Eastern states treat African Americans EXCEPT that the North Easterners are emmm sophisticated so they do the separate but equal thing to the hilt.
There are whole communities in NY where you will be hard faced to see a person of color. Meanwhile there are so many Black folk in NY, NJ, CT , MD etc. But they separate themselves, not in White FLIGHT but WHITE RACING. hahaha. They race away from people of color.

Anyway, the Hispanics, better support Obama. The GOP, of which I was formerly a staunch defender, appears to be a clannish, insular party of old white men who cling onto the establishment and are unwilling to sail with joy into the reality of twenty first century America population distribution.

Do not support the Boehners of the world. Ok, scratch that, maybe support him. He might be more malleable than others in his party with all the emm whiskey and stuff he allegedly imbibes.

LM
http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/criminals-use-technology-to-trackrape-and-kill-innocent-people/
3xfire3

Did anyone notice that Obama could not accurately quote the “Message on the Statue of Liberty” in his speech on immigration today?
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Even with two teleprompters he screwed up the second half of the engraved message.
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That’s really embarrassing.
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How can you clowns keep bad mouthing Palin when Obama makes mistakes like this on a regular bases?
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Your Hero really doesn’t know much about American history or about Medical Courpsman.
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Not too impressive for a Harvard grad.
53_3

I guess a writing in the hand is better than two teleprompters in the bush?
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Supposed to be 2.1 to 3xfire3, but what the heck…
53_3

“How can you clowns keep bad mouthing Palin when Obama makes mistakes like this on a regular bases?”
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Easy. Your dominatrix does it on an even more regular-er basis…
53_3

BTW, 3xfire3, how are those ants, anyway?
53_3

“Your Hero really doesn’t know much about American history or about Medical Courpsman.”
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We’ll file your knowledge of the former under “relentlessly ignorant” thereof.
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As for the latter, hell, 3x, you can’t even spell it right!
http://milascurtains.wordpress.com milascurtains

do You have any personal thoughts?
When not – why to bother people here?
http://milascurtains.wordpress.com milascurtains

Idiot, can You compare: President, giving 2.5 official speeches a day on serious matter, when he just might NOT make any mistake, and idiot palin, who needed to remind herself, that she needs “to energize the base”.
It was probably the most sensible sentence she ever had in her word-salad speeches.

if You do not see the difference, maybe You just give up and read just books for kids?
3xfire3

IQ 53,
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I spelled it the way the President pronounced it. Give me a break.
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sacredh

Obama is the Messiah.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
That’s why I joined the Tea Party. The government is always forcing people to do things they don’t want to do. I have allergies and all that green pasture sh!t makes my eyes water and my nose run. Is it any wonder that people are fed up with governments run by Gods? He leadeth me by still waters. Well duh! They’re still because the water is stagnant and infested with mosquitoes. Another plot to force us to see the doctor and get charged an arm and a leg.
53_3

Why should I give you a break?
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After all, 3x, now you seem to be not only relentlessly stupid, and have a death grip on ignorance, but you also seem to be carrying Rusty’s knards…
53_3

You realize this “gotcha” moment was planned by Obama, er, God some 563,000,000 years ago.
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Think about it:
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Those green plants and stuff? Those are all chlorophytes, so he needed to cobble those up before he could ever evolve ‘em into all that green pasture sh!t you were surrounded by.
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On top of that, then, he had to cobble up arthropods before he could ever get them darned skeeters, right? Fock. It is the same with all that meiofauna in that stagnant water to feed them skeeters.
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He had it in for you a long, looooooong time ago…