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Comprehensive immigration reform favored by those most affected

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Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Florida are home to some of the highest concentration of immigration Latinos. And unlike the other states that would round off this list -- Arizona, Texas, and California -- these four are hot electoral battlegrounds.

NDN polled attitudes toward immigration in those states, and some of the responses weren't too shocking. Yes, immigration is important to Latinos, and yes, the xenophobic Right's opposition to comprehensive immigration reform is killing Republicans. Less surprising is just how popular comprehensive immigration reform was to non-Hispanic voters in these heavily affected states.

The federal government would grant illegal immigrants with conditional legal status permanent residency and a path to citizenship if they maintain a strong employment record, undergo a background check, learn basic English, pay any back taxes and $2,000 in fines and fees.

All voters who said this was an "excellent" or "good proposal":


All / Hispanic

Florida 73 84

Colorado 68 74

New Mexico 69 68

Nevada 72 80



Would you support or oppose this comprehensive immigration reform package?


ALL VOTERS

Support / Oppose

Florida 67 25
Colorado 69 21
New Mexico 66 23
Nevada 67 25


Yes, Latinos are more likely to support comprehensive immigration reform, but the dropoff to the overall voter pool is surprisingly minimal. There is little appetite among overall voters for the Minuteman agenda.

John McCain's presence at the top of the ticket has muted much of the vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric this cycle. While McCain has flipped on his previous support for a sensible path to citizenship, Republicans don't want to call to much attention to all that flopping. So they're temporarily muzzled except in the odd down-ballot race. Nothing like the fury unleashed on brown immigrations in the 2006 and 2007 elections (to little success, of course).

But this is a temporary cease fire. The issue will flare again next year as Republicans, flailing for any issue that resonates and desperate for a new internal boogeyman to hate, will turn on Latinos with a vengeance. The Latino presence inside the GOP, now down to three Cuban-American House members and Sen. Martinez -- all in Florida -- should be whittled down by 1-3 on Election Day. And after Latinos deliver 65-75 percent of their vote to Obama, Republicans will finally shrug off Karl Rove's entreaties to fight for the Latino vote once and for all.

And things will get ugly.

Yet the xenophobic Right, for all its sound and fury, is incapable of little more than hissy fits. The public at large isn't as hateful in the very states most affected by undocumented immigrants. And that's a lesson we will struggle to deliver to skittish Democrats in the coming years.

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I guess this is another poll alicrapers wont believe.
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