Obama immigration shift a hit with voters, says new poll

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/o...144334585.html


Wow, this is working out perfectly!!!


President Barack Obama's high-profile shift on immigration last week—announcing plans to grant temporary legal status to as many as 800,000 undocumented people brought to American soil as children—has the overwhelming support of likely voters in a new Bloomberg poll released Tuesday.
Sixty-four percent of them—and 66 percent of independents, the frequently up-for-grabs voters thought to decide elections—support the president's decision. The White House has forcefully (and rather implausibly) denied that Obama sought political gain from his announcement. But as recently as March 2011, he had said publicly that he lacked the power to halt such deportations.
The Bloomberg survey found that just 30 percent of likely voters disagreed with the president's plan. Fifty-six percent of likely Republican voters opposed it, while 86 percent of Democrats supported it. Just 26 percent of independents sided with the Republican majority in the poll.
The results surely cheered Obama's re-election campaign, which has been working to reassemble the victorious coalition that powered his history-making 2008 win—but it faces an uphill fight in the face of deep pessimism about the economy.
The poll, which had an error margin of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points, also showed that immigration was the top issue of just 4 percent of voters—the sputtering recovery tops that list in every survey of public opinion.Obama enjoys a lopsided advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney among Latinos. But while they are the fastest-growing voting bloc and could decide the outcome in pivotal battleground states like Colorado, Florida and Nevada, Latinos have the lowest voter registration numbers of any major ethnic group in the United States. That means the president must energize them enough to register—and then encourage them to show up on Nov. 6.
The challenge—and the stakes—are evident in Florida. A whopping 638,000 Latinos there are eligible to vote but have not registered, according to a recent report by the Obama-aligned Center for American Progress think tank in Washington. That's enough to make the difference in the Sunshine State.
Both Romney and Obama are due to visit Florida this week to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) at the group's annual conference. The former Massachusetts governor will speak Thursday, followed by Obama on Friday.

The majority of the people will agree with this policy change as a good thing while it is more often the vocal minority that seems to want to ruin it for us.

Amen. The people who support Obama have to vote because unfortunately the old folk with their old views tend to have nothing to do than wake up, vote, then wait for next year.

lol, this was politically motivated, no matter what the white house says. Even my generally-on-the-fence-slightly-conservative friend has decided he is voting for Obama now.

Make sure you guys tell your friends to vote for Obama. You should explain your situation and why it is very important. I already made 5 people register to vote Democrat. They do not vote. They promised me they will to help me out. You do not need be a USC to vote. Just find other people to vote for you. I am even trying to convince my boss to vote for Obama. He is one of those hard headed republicans. I will not tell him I am illegal or he will fire me. But I am going to convince him. I have my ways.

uhmmm...YES YOU DO HAVE TO BE A USC TO VOTE.

I get what you're trying to say tho. That you don't have to be a USC to have your voice heard. Just needed to clarify that one thing. =)

Lol yeah ofcourse that is what I meant. Good point. I do not want any illegal immigrant to take to heart and then go register to vote haha. That would be bad.