Public Opposition To Obamnesty Gone

by JASmius



Remember fifteen weeks ago when I sounded the alarm that last November's vehement, near-unanimous public opposition to The One's illegal, unconstitutional, despotic Immigration Proclamation was eroding?  Now it is effectively gone altogether.

Or, put another way, "We are all foreigners now":

A new Associated Press/GfK poll not only suggests that the president’s immigration actions are [now] popular among core must-win constituencies for both the Democrats and Republicans, but that partisans on both sides of the aisle on the verge of accepting them as irreversible.

That survey found that 53% of respondents back providing a pathway to citizenship, not just legal status, for illegal [alien]s living in the United States. 59% favor allowing immigrants who are brought to the U.S. as children a way to remain in the country legally. Another 57% support allowing the illegal [alien] parents of children who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents a way to remain in the country. The president’s executive orders on immigration accomplish both of these [now-]popular objectives.

A plurality, 49%, say they would support a candidate for the presidency who supports the president’s immigration orders while 47% say they would back a candidate who promises to reverse them. But that 47% might be soft.

“Even among Republicans, many say they could see themselves voting for a candidate who wants to keep Obama’s action in place,” read an AP summary of this poll’s findings. “Three-quarters of Republicans say they would prefer to vote for a candidate who would undo it, but a combined 55% would either prefer to support a candidate who would keep it in place or could imagine themselves voting for such a candidate.”

Self-described conservatives, too, are resigned to the notion that the president’s executive actions aren't going away. “Even among conservatives, nearly half — 47% — could at least imagine voting for a candidate who would keep the action in place,” that report added. [emphases added]

The usual Obamedia polling caveats apply, of course.  But if there's one thing we on the Right should have learned by now, it is that we can't just dismiss every poll that produces results we don't like.  The key is to look at the polling trend on an issue and see in which direction public sentiment appears to be heading.  And on Obamnesty, it seems pretty clear that the American people across the board are resigning themselves - or reveling in - the extinction of citizenship and the loss of what used to be our country to the "Old World" from which our (legal) immigrant ancestors originally fled.

And, of course, the inevitability of a one-party Islamo-communist dictatorship, almost certainly within the next decade, if not in the next eighteen months.

As the old saying goes, "possession is nine-tenths of the law".

Exit question: If congressional Republicans had kept their promise to defund Obamnesty, would these polling numbers have looked markedly different?