Large Majorities Support President Obama's Immigration Policies

     This is just not the GOP's day. Indeed, it hasn't been their week. They have basically now lost two big SJC rulings. Now watch them turn on the SJC-who has been their best friend in rulings like Citizen's United and the ruling against the women in the Wallmart discrimination case.

    Now a poll shows that no matter how the Rush Limbaughs and the Seany Hannitys of the world try to spin things Americans support the President's immigration policies by a large margin.

    "Americans by a wide margin favor President Barack Obama's new policy of halting deportations of many young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, a new poll shows."

     "In all, nearly seven in 10 Americans said they favor the administration's new immigration policy, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Hispanic support approached 90%."

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577492642990259950.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5

       Obviously it has payed off with Hispanic voters:

       "The move could pay big political dividends for the president if it boosts Hispanic support for him in pivotal battleground states in November. Over the past month, the share of Hispanics nationwide saying they now have "very positive" views of Mr. Obama jumped by 10 percentage points to 41%.
In addition to the general sampling of Americans in the WSJ/NBC News poll, a sample of 300 Hispanics, done along with the Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo and broken out as a separate poll, found Mr. Obama widening his lead among Latinos over GOP rival Mitt Romney to 66% to 26%, up six percentage points over last month."

      It also helps him specifically with Hispanic voters in Florida-where most Hispanics are Cuban and Florida is an important swing state with whom is numbers are now up. Indeed, it helps him-and his party-with pretty much every demographic group across the country:

      "In the WSJ/NBC News poll, nearly every segment of the population—whites, male voters, suburbanites, rural voters, even union members—supported the move to stop the deportations. But those identifying themselves as Republicans narrowly opposed the move, 48% to 47%."

      That last one up to be an eye raiser! Even self identified Republicans only oppose the move by 1 whole point! 

      There is also some more encouraging data which suggests that social and cultural evolution does happen and the country is evolving-a word that Obama got killed for using- on immigration:

        "Nearly half of all Americans now think immigration helps the U.S. more than it hurts, while 39% said its hurts more than helps, down from 52% who held the negative view in 2007."

         "The Romney campaign has pushed aggressively over the last month to boost its support among Hispanics. It announced a large team of prominent Hispanics who are advising his campaign. In ads, it has highlighted Mr. Obama's economic record and the markedly higher unemployment rate among Hispanics, which now sits at 11%, compared to the 8.2% national jobless rate."

        "But the Hispanic poll finds Latinos to be more optimistic than the whole of the population about the direction of the country and the state of the economy."

        "The poll also found far stronger support among Hispanics for Obama initiatives, particularly the 2010 health-care overhaul. With the Supreme Court set to rule on the law Thursday, nearly half the Hispanics polled said they believed the law was a good idea, compared to 35% among Americans over all."

        Hey Right wing spinmeisters: go ahead and spin that.