Thread: Poll: GOP voters want immigration reform now

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Poll: GOP voters want immigration reform now
Favor allowing legal status & tighter border controls this year
Reuters


Updated: 5:26 p.m. ET June 22, 2006
WASHINGTON - Most U.S. Republican voters support giving illegal immigrants a chance to earn legal status even as border controls are tightened -- and they think it should happen this year, a poll released Thursday said.

The poll, commissioned by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, found that 82 per cent of likely Republican voters supported tightening the borders and imposing tougher penalties on illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.

It said about 80 percent of Republicans support an earned legalization program to give immigrants legal status. The majority, 68 percent, also oppose deportation for illegal immigrants, the poll said.

"There is a real desire for the majority of Republicans to find a solution for this problem," Brian Nienaber, vice-president of The Tarrance Group, which conducted the research, told reporters.

About 72 per cent of the Republicans surveyed said it was important to solve the problem of illegal immigration this year, according to the poll.

Disagreement at the top
President Bush, a Republican, is pushing for a broad bill along the lines of proposals that would tighten security at the border and give a path to citizenship for most of the more than 11 million illegal immigrants who live in the United States.

But the House and Senate, both under Republican control, have passed competing versions that must be reconciled to become law. The House version calls for tough border control and workplace enforcement but does not include a citizenship plan as in the Senate's version.

Republican congressional leaders say it will be hard to complete a bill before November's midterm elections. Some Republicans called for new hearings that could postpone an agreement even more.

National security is still the top concern for the Republican voters at 20 percent, but immigration came second in the poll at 15 percent.

The poll included interviews with 804 likely Republican voters in various U.S. states from June 12-15. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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Who, who, who in the BLEEP did they call to come up with these numbers?

The Tarrance Group
A national Republican polling firm, providing polls, election information, and related services.
www.tarrance.com/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

In other words--the fox guarding the henhouse! therefore DISCOUNT ENTIRE CONTENT OF POLL!

"Over the years, our total commitment to quality has helped elect more than 80 Republican governors, U.S. Senators and Members of Congress,as well as scores of state legislative candidates. All of these clients would say one thing about The Tarrance Group: We hate to lose."

As long as we are at it---here is your TO DO LIST:

POLITICAL CLIENT LIST of the www.tarrance.com group:

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WAYNE ALLARD, CO
THAD COCHRAN, MS
LARRY CRAIG, ID
MIKE DEWINE, OH
MIKE ENZI, WY
CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA
TRENT LOTT, MS
CRAIG THOMAS, WY
GEORGE VOINOVICH, OH
JOHN WARNER, VA

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BILL OWENS, CO
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MARK KENNEDY, MN
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FOREIGN POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF ONTARIO (CANADA)
CANADIAN ALLIANCE PARTY
GREECE – NATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
NEW ZEALAND -- NATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
PHILIPPINES -- NATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
PARIS, FRANCE – MAYORAL ELECTION

What is this organization doing meddling in our politics, while serving many other Houses? Would someone follow up on this groups' motivations, and their true goals? Also make our politicians aware that this is an international Lobbying agency on U.S. Soil!

Any poll of less than 1,000 sample size (this one says it was of 804 people) is garbage - too small a sample size, the larger the sample size the better. Also, for it to be reliable it needs to be truly random, which I suspect this one was not. Additionally, the content and type of questions asked can influence the poll results as well as how the quesitons were asked. So, most likely this poll is a pile of dung. My college statistics professor told me once if a sample size of a large population is less than 1,000 individuals, ignore the poll because it's junk.

globalism.

It's a Push poll!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll

A push poll is a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll. Push polls are generally viewed as a form of negative campaigning. The term is also sometimes used incorrectly to refer to legitimate polls which test political messages, some of which may be negative. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants.

Decent!! Pure and Simple!

Who are they polling, Jebb's inlaws?

No they are polling Bush's illegal Latino brothers and sisters