Perhaps I spoke too soon....?:
Voters will side with the GOP if they fight President Obama’s effort to print work permits for millions of migrant workers, according to a new poll.
The large poll shows that 47% of the 1,593 respondents approve of Obama’s overall performance — but also shows lopsided opposition to his amnesty among the critical independent voters and lower-income voters that the GOP needs to persuade and turn out in 2016.
Just 19% of 691 people who earn less than $50,000 a year strongly support Obama’s amnesty move, while 40% strongly oppose. One in six of 693 blue-collar respondents, or 15%, strongly supported Obama’s decision, while 47% strongly opposed it.
Hmmm; I guess I didn't. Those are still definitely lower levels of opposition to Obamnesty, even in the demographic internals, than was the case back on November 4th. But, as I observed last week, this is, like every poll outside of the few days before Election Day, a survey of "adults," not voters, which is an oftentimes much smaller, and always more conservative, subset. At least when Barack Obama isn't atop the ballot, anyway. And definitely indicates that the intensity is still very much on the side of the opposition to The One's perpetual Border Crisis.
And a reinforcement of the message that November 4th should already have sent to the victors:
The Paragon Insights poll gives cautious GOP senators an armory of darts in their pending effort to pin Democrats to Obama’s unpopular amnesty policy.
Republicans will never have a bigger, better wedge issue than this one. If ever there was more favorable ground for a showdown with El Presidente, it has yet to be discovered.
And yet, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is still stubbornly reticent to tackle immigration and has repeatedly said that he doesn’t want to push the issue:
“This striking polling data underscores just how badly American workers are hoping Congress will protect them from the President’s imperial edicts,” said Stephen Miller, communications director for Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.
The poll is a problem and an opportunity for the GOP leadership, which is struggling to balance the business demand for more cheap migrant labor, and the voters’.... demands for better jobs and higher wages.
If the GOP sides with the high-immigration alliance of business executives and Democratic progressives, “history may record this as the biggest missed opportunity a political party has ever faced,” said a Hill staffer.
That would include picking up four more "red" State Democrat senate seats in 2016, and holding or at least offsetting potential losses of "blue" State seats like Pat Toomey's (Pennsylvania), Mark Kirk's (Illinois), and Ron Johnson's (Wisconsin). But Democrats, plowing right into the teeth of vehement voter opposition to Obamnesty, aren't being "reticent" at all about circling the wagons behind their despotic demigod.
The lesson for Senate GOPers is clear: Business is fine, business is great, and as Calvin Coolidge once said, "The business of this country is business." But "business" didn't create this country, or its founding principles, or its erstwhile Constitution, without all of which "business" wouldn't and can't exist, much less function, and which is almost entirely mercenary, as its whoring of itself to the Democrat junta over the past six years has amply demonstrated.
And "business" didn't give the Republicans their comfortable congressional majorities, either. That would be "We, The People". It seems abundantly clear that "We, The People" - those of us who actually bother to vote, anyway - are still speaking, loud and clear, as we did almost three months ago. Will the GOP listen? If not, Whigdom may await them, and national suicide will await the rest of us.
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