Immigration: It's a Republican thing

Posted at 3:11 PM on April 12, 2006 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

Rasmussen Reports is out this week with a fascinating poll that explains pretty well why the immigration issue has gotten such a big blip on the political radar.

37% of Americans now trust Republicans more than Democrats on the issue of immigration. Just 31% trust the Democrats more.

A separate survey earlier this month found that "a plurality of Americans would vote for the candidate (in a hypothetical congressional matchup) who favors more enforcement on the immigration issue.

Comments (2)

Mark Blumenthal over at Mystery Pollster has a written a couple of good posts explaining why one should be careful of reading too much into any single polling result on immigration. See:

http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2006/04/immigration_ask.html

and

http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2006/04/more_in_immigra.html

David Kirchner
The Analyst

Posted by David Kirchner | April 12, 2006 9:23 PM

Rasmussen and Mysterpollster are both GOP pollsters who work on ways to help the GOP and make them look better than they actually are. Rasmussen's polls usually have Bush 5% higher that any of the other more estabilshed non-partisan pollsters. Mysterypollster lied about 2004 exit polls favoring Kerry voters when just the opposite was true. In other words, Bushies stole that election.

Posted by Bill Jacobs | July 6, 2006 10:32 AM

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