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No immigration bounce for President Obama
The Washington Post ^ | 10 Jul 2012 | Peyton M. Craighill

Posted on 07/10/2012 4:44:03 PM PDT by mandaladon

President Obama’s announcement of his support for relaxed enforcement of immigration laws on the children of illegal immigrants has not provided any lift for him on the issue according to the new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

His approval rating on dealing with immigration issues is no better (nor worse) than it was two years ago, and he runs evenly with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney on who people trust to handle the issue. Fewer than one in five voters — 18 percent — say immigration is an extremely important issue in their vote. In the Post’s key eight toss-up states — which include burgeoning Hispanic populations in Colorado, Florida and Nevada — Obama’s disapproval on immigration still tops 50 percent. And he does not enjoy any wider lead over Romney on the issue in those states than in any others.

Polls in specific swing states indicate that Obama’s shift on immigration policy, while widely popular, could be a net vote loser come November. More than twice as many voters said the policy made them less rather than more likely to support Obama in June Quinnipiac University polls in Ohio and Pennsylvania — despite the fact that over half of all voters in those states support the policy

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; howtostealanelection; illegalimmigration; immigration; obamascandals
No surprise here.
1 posted on 07/10/2012 4:44:19 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon
Lessee, Obama immigration policy 'widely popular' but a 'loser' in November's election. Got it.

Filed under More Addled WaPo Drivel.

2 posted on 07/10/2012 4:47:55 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: mandaladon

3 posted on 07/10/2012 4:49:15 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: mandaladon
Obama is working on it.

Fox News - "Closure of Border Patrol stations across four states triggers alarm"

Newsmax - "Move to Close 9 Border Patrol Stations Spurs Outrage"

4 posted on 07/10/2012 4:50:14 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: mandaladon

so what does the ***hole do...open the borders

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2904976/posts


5 posted on 07/10/2012 4:50:42 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: mandaladon

There are so many important issues in this election it isn’t surprising that 18% only call it a primary issue.

To me the Primary issue is the Constitution, and it’s preservation,Obamacare, Then there is Obama and Hillary supporting the LOST treaty and the UN gun theft, the Muslims and Obama’s support of them, The economy, and unemployment,our prestige in foreign countries under the man who bows.The debt, and printing of money with no backing,in effect just about everything Obama has touched has turned to S**t.
Certainly illegals are a problem , our borders are not secure.These people driving around drunk and killing people in auto accidents, Hispanic gangs. We have already paid a fortune to educate illegals through grade and high school, now they want college, and let’s not forget the destruction of our military through cuts and Homosexuals.

There are so many priorities that to name one comes down to this.

GET RID OF OBAMA, then hold Romneys feet to the fire and make him perform. Get rid of RINo’s who are as bad as Democrats.


6 posted on 07/10/2012 4:54:33 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer

“hold Romneys feet to the fire”

with what


7 posted on 07/10/2012 5:01:48 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Venturer

We import enough welfare state clients/ democrat voters over the southern border and all the other issues become moot by default.


8 posted on 07/10/2012 5:03:00 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Doogle

And a very suspiciously timely promise to sign away our Second Amendment rights to protect ourselves.


9 posted on 07/10/2012 5:02:59 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

First Romney promised to do away with Obamacare.

If he doesn’t do it we demonstrate. It’s past time for Conservatives to stand and take it, It’s time we dished it out. It’s time we stopped writing letters and showed up at our Congress critters offices, en masse.

Or we could just give up if that’s what you want to do.


10 posted on 07/10/2012 5:11:33 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
'“hold Romneys feet to the fire”'

'with what'

LOTS of things get the close attention of pols - and presidents.

Thousands of people just outside their doors WAKE THEM UP nicely - and we sure as hell can do that and much more.

11 posted on 07/10/2012 5:12:17 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

“hold Romneys feet to the fire”

“with what”

Doubt.

On November 5th, Monday night, Mittens doesn’t know what guys/gals like you and me are going to do the next day.

If polls show he won with our support, for four years we ride him like a coin-operated pony at the grocery store.


12 posted on 07/10/2012 5:26:42 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks mandaladon.


13 posted on 07/10/2012 6:07:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out; Venturer

““hold Romneys feet to the fire”

with what”

With his own campaign promises. If he wins, he’ll want to be re-elected. We have plenty of leverage. We just need to use it.


14 posted on 07/10/2012 7:00:53 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero

We have to be willing to put in some time.

We have to be willing to march on Washington and let the powers there see that they only stay there by doing what we ask.

We have to be willing to do as the liberal rent a crowd does.

Sitting on our asses and wasting time with emails and the form replies we get from them won’t cut it.


15 posted on 07/11/2012 5:30:26 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: mandaladon; All

The best Obama exposure site on the net:

The Obama File
http://theobamafile.com/

The United States Library of Congress has selected
TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection
of Internet materials
http://theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html

Just a few pages:

http://theobamafile.com/index_next_politics.html

http://www.theobamafile.com/index_next_personal.html

http://www.theobamafile.com/BarackObama.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/FamilyPage.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaPsychology.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaWife.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/ObamaAssociates.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIconography.htm

.

.


16 posted on 07/11/2012 7:25:30 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Persevero; Venturer; Ron C.; tumblindice

“If he wins, he’ll want to be re-elected”

That strategy doesn’t WORK. The democrats just run Stalin V2.0 then we vote for anything wearing an elephant bumper sticker.

There is no “holding feet to fire”. There is only “you get what you got”.

PRIMARIES. IT’S ALL DECIDED BY PRIMARIES.

If we could get all of our people interested in primaries, that’s about the only reasonable hope left for civilization right now.


17 posted on 07/14/2012 8:29:23 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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