The right is currently ecstatic that there is a majority opposed to helping undocumented immigrants become equal members of society. Witness Scott Rasmussen, for instance, trumpeting opposition to the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform framework. But in a 6/22-24/07 CNN poll, we get a very different story.
19/19A. Do you oppose the Senate immigration bill MOSTLY because you think it goes too far toward helping illegal immigrants, or MOSTLY because it does not go far enough toward helping illegal
immigrants?
Favor bill about illegal immigration (from Q.19) 30%
Oppose bill because it goes too far toward helping 28%
illegal immigrants
Oppose bill because it does not go far enough 15%
toward helping illegal immigrants
Oppose bill, no opinion on Q.19A 4%
Don't know enough to say (vol.) 19%
No opinion 3%
So pluralists beat bigots 45%-28% (or 45%-32% if we're being generous). This is reflected in other polls that say that a majority supports a pathway to citizenship.
In other news, cloture on the immigration bill has passed 64-35 (those 35 include 25 R's, 9 D's, and Sanders). Note that Bernie was probably the only opponent to have opposed the bill from the "left" - based on the guest worker program creating a permanent, two-tiered class of residents. Supposedly, this was the big procedural hurdle, and the final bill would have to pass by only a tie vote after all the Amendments are added (since Cheney's a vote in favor). The last cloture motion got 45 votes IIRC, so getting that to 50 seems doable.|
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