Posted on 01/31/2017 3:09:09 PM PST by markomalley
Here's a brand new poll on President Trump's travel ban from Reuters/Ipsos, which was somehow taken today and yesterday:
The Jan. 30-31 poll found that 49 percent of American adults said they either "strongly" or "somewhat" agreed with Trump's order, while 41 percent "strongly" or "somewhat" disagreed and another 10 percent said they don't know.
So, yeah, most people are fine with a pause on new admissions from the seven countries in the executive order. Perhaps that makes sense — most of the stated opposition to it has to do with a perception that it's actually much more than what it purports to be, a back-door method of implementing the "Muslim ban" Trump had talked about early in the presidential primaries.
Perhaps a lot of minds would change if the ban was extended in time or expanded to cover more majority-Muslim countries to boster that perception. That said, opposition to the Trump E.O. was probably a lot easier to organize, and broader than it might have been otherwise, because of the sloppy, incompetent way in which it was implemented. This was our biggest objection, that the order seemed to be playing with lives and accomplishing little beyond making a point for a political constituency.
Any policy that ensnares large numbers of green-card holders and blindsides people who already had permission to travel to the U.S. (including people who helped U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan) is going to create practical problems, to say nothing of the political problems.
Still, as with things Trump, the poll suggests that this policy just isn't the political disaster that most people in the media had assumed. A large number of people in big cities with airports don't seem to like it, and for now that's apparently as far as it goes.
Not surprised.
i live two miles from the clinton’s in liberalsville. Trump is not popular here..a guy in the gym who i almost came to blows with a year ago told me that while he doesn’t like Trump as a person “i agree with his travel ban and wish he would expand the number of ME countries to the list.”
Democrats keep writing fake news and now have fake crying going for them.
The Ca husband and wife shooters went through 5 different agencies to get approved....but not one interview/review was in person.
If it’s your (not you personally) wife and children next to a person from the Middle East, don’t you want them to be vetted thoroughly? Some folks can think beyond the Leftist sound-bites.
The Left is destroying itself. So great to see...
Just think out much Democrats who have to travel for a living are enjoying the delays at the airports.
As the crybabies keep disrupting things, I expect the numbers to move farther in favor of the plan.
Of course, as people learn what the EO actually says, they might be a little bit more in favor of it too. Getting past the liberal media is an obstacle.
More popular than the media thought, anyway.
should of had him buy drinks afterwards... then leave and say thanks!
Excellent post
And the 10% “don’t knows” are afraid of the 41%.
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