Americans’ satisfaction with the way blacks are treated has declined to a new low in Gallup’s 15-year trend, now at 49%. This is a sharp drop from two years ago, when 62% were satisfied. Blacks, whites and Hispanics all show significant declines since 2013 in their satisfaction with the treatment […] Read more »
Donald Trump: 75% of Latinos have negative view of GOP front-runner
Three in four Latinos say they have a negative view of Donald Trump, and more than half believe that his comments about Mexican immigrants were racist and inappropriate, according to a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal/ Telemundo poll. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »
The Appeal of ‘Trump-ism’
Is the “silent majority” ready to roar again? Donald Trump thinks so. At his big rally in Phoenix recently, the bombastic businessman insisted: “The ‘silent majority’ is back, and we are going to take the country back.” Trump’s future in the GOP presidential race is uncertain after his churlish attacks […] Read more »
Republicans Stand Against Cuba Change Despite Public Opinion Shift
… Once a community known for standing in solidarity in support of the trade embargo, steering U.S. policy toward Cuba, the Cuban-Americans of Miami-Dade are showing rifts in their political views. … The changing Cuban-American demographic may serve as a window into the group’s changing opinions. The number of Cuban-Americans […] Read more »
GOP and Latinos: On immigration, history shows the way
On the question of immigration, the Republican Party is at a crossroads. The party could take the Jeb Bush approach. “The way I look at this,” Bush said last year, “is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families […] Read more »
A big majority of Americans are ‘soft’ on immigration, they probably just won’t vote that way
… Six in 10 Americans support the idea of allowing undocumented immigrants already in the United States to remain and, with some conditions, gain the status needed to work legally. A slightly smaller but still majority stake of Americans, 57 percent, agree that immigrants strengthen American society. Still, those opinions […] Read more »