Two-thirds of Americans oppose immigration plans advocated by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. In contrast, 84% favor a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants living in the U.S., a plan backed by Democratic nominee […] Read more »
Immigration Opinion and the Rise of Donald Trump
Many observers are puzzling over the voters’ choice of Donald Trump as the 2016 Republican nominee for president. Part of the puzzle can be resolved by understanding that Trump was close to the GOP grassroots on a number of important policy priorities, including immigration. … Opinion polls leading up to […] Read more »
Polling Beyond Core Republicans Points Up Challenges for GOP Convention
… For Republicans to win in November, they must rally not only the traditional base–core Republicans make up just 17% of all registered voters, so less than 1 in 5–but also voters who identify as Republican and who may not support Donald Trump, as well as Democrats and independents, who […] Read more »
Republicans get behind Trump, but not all of his policies
As the Republican National Convention gets under way in Cleveland, the party’s top goal will be to unite Republicans and expand Donald Trump’s appeal to the general electorate. A new survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, conducted June 10-27, 2016, found that a large majority of Republicans are […] Read more »
The End Of A Republican Party
… Many have assumed that adherence to a certain conservative purity was the engine of the GOP, and given the party’s demographic homogeneity, this made sense. But re-evaluating recent history in light of Trump, and looking a bit closer at this year’s numbers, something else seems to be the primary […] Read more »
New poll shows strong sense of community on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
Despite heated political rhetoric about the U.S.-Mexico border, people who live in the region largely view themselves as one community, believe in making it easier to cross back and forth and do not favor building a new wall, according to a Cronkite News-Univision News-Dallas Morning News poll. The poll is […] Read more »