Thread: NumbersUSA: Amnesty Watch - One poll shows 14-point plunge for Sen. Graham among GOP

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Today: One poll shows 14-point plunge for Sen. Graham among GOP voters . . . Another poll shows S.C. opposes ( 57-38 ) giving work permits to illegal aliens

Sat Apr 20

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MORE GOOD NEWS ON BAD NEWS FOR THE GANG AMNESTY

Since NumbersUSA began running TV and radio ads in February highlighting the amnesty leadership of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), his popularity among South Carolina voters has dropped rapidly, according to a new Winthrop University poll.

Although he retains majority support among Republicans, his approval rating among them fell from 71.6% in February to 57.5% in April.

That's a mighty big drop in a really short time for a politician who has been defiant when national journalists ask him about NumbersUSA's educational campaign about his work with the Senate Gang of Eight in pushing for huge increases in foreign labor to compete with the 20 million unemployed Americans who can't find a full-time job.

Graham's approval rating among all registered voters has fallen to 43.9%, according to the university poll. He is up for re-election in 2014. Two Republicans are threatening a challenge in the primary next year: state Sen. Lee Bright and former congressional candidate Richard Cash.

Graham repeatedly states to journalists and in Senate hearings -- as recently as this week -- that the unemployed workers in South Carolina refuse to take the non-agricultural jobs that open up. The only hope for South Carolina businesses is to import more foreign workers, he says.

That attitude about jobless Americans in their own states is, in a nutshell, the belief of most of the Senators who support the Gang of Amnesty.

ANOTHER POLL FINDS FEW S.C. VOTERS AGREE THAT S.C. WORKERS SHOULD BE BY-PASSED FOR FOREIGN WORKE RS

Graham has stated that the only thing that will keep him from voting for the Gang Amnesty is if it puts too many restrictions on how many foreign workers businesses can import.

And he has bragged that South Carolina voters are now with him.

But an April poll by Pulse Opinion Research of likely South Carolina voters, finds quite a different profile.

The key fe ature of the Gang Amnesty is to give work permits to illegal aliens before any new enforcement against illegal immigration. South Carolina's voters don't like it:

QUESTION: Congress is considering a bill to give work permits to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. Support or oppose?

38% SUPPORT 57% OPPOSE
-- Pulse Opinion Research

Interestingly, the Winthrop University poll that found Graham's approval numbers dropping has gotten a lot of publicity for also supposedly finding that most S.C. voters would be OK with an amnesty.

This is where wording of questions makes a lot of difference.

The Winthrop poll puts a lot of words to push the amnesty (of course, without using the word):

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In the debate over immigration reform, some proposals include a path to citizenship for undocumented persons who are in the country illegally. This path to citizenship would require these individuals to go to the back of the line to apply for citizenship, require English-proficiency exams, ensure immigrants are paying taxes and impose a fine for those who are here illegally. Would you support or oppose a path to citizenship as part of larger immigration reform?

74.8% SUPPORT 15.3% OPPOSE
-- Winthrop University

Wow! How can there be such a disparity in answers?

I have no doubt that the polling that got that answer was as professional as the Pulse Opinion polling that found only 38% support for giving work permits.

The key here is probably that the Winthrop question did not in any way suggest that the illegal aliens are workers, will be given work permits or could possibly be in competition with a large unemployed population.

Instead, it referred to the amnesty as a "path to citizenship," which means a lot in reality but which doesn't signal to the person answering the poll that there are any specific benefits to the amnesty.

On the other hand, the Pulse Opinion poll explicitly named a key benefit that the amnesty would provide to the illegal aliens -- work permits.

Furthermore, the Winthrop question gave no sense of the magnitude of the illegal population, failing to mention how many people might get the amnesty.

The Pulse Opinion poll noted that the illegal population is estimated at 11 million.

In addition, the Winthrop poll used all those words that I've highlighted in red that have been tested to evoke positive reactions from voters. The problem is that the bill is written in such a way that virtually none of the provisions promised in that poll question are likely to happen in any substantial way.

The results of these two polls show why Sen. Graham and other Gang Amnesty supporters will do everything possible to make the 20 million Americans disappear from the debate and to downplay the work permits that will be given out at the beginning.
OK, on to another place where Sen. Graham is at odds with his state. He and other Senators pushing the Gang Amnesty insist that illegal aliens don't compete with Americans for the same jobs.

But South Carolina voters answered this way:

QUESTION: Do you believe less-educated illegal immigrants compete directly with less-educated Americans for construction, hospitality and other service jobs?

64% YES23% NO
-- Pulse Opinion Research

There has been a lot of media attention to the efforts of some evangelical leaders to persuade South Carolina's congressional delegation that the Bible demands that they vote for an amnesty because the illegal aliens are just trying to support their families.

But South Carolina voters have a different sense of moral responsibility:

QUESTION: How much moral responsibility do you feel Congress has to help protect the ability of illegal immigrants to hold a job and support their families without fear of deportation?
39% A lot or Some54% None or Very little

QUESTION: How much moral responsibility do you feel Congress has to help protect the ability of less-educated Americans to get a job without competition from foreign workers?

69% A lot or Some28% Very little or None
-- Pulse Opinion Research

You can view our Sen. Graham ad at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ift7g3 eHQNk

Here's my blog that gives the facts behind each of the claims in the ad:

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/february-28-2013/facts-behind-our-south-carolina-ads-about-sen-grahams-amnesty-push.h

The Pulse Opinion Research poll was conducted on April 1 and has a margin of sampling error of +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Your voice needs to be heard by fax or phone several times a week in your Senators' offices

The pro-amnesty forces have approximately $150 million to organ ize support for the Gang Amnesty. But polling shows far more Americans are passionately against the amnesty than for it. We don't have the money, but we have the voters -- IF THEY SPEAK UP.

roy beck
Sat, Apr 20^th

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