Polling Brutal for Democrats on Immigration Enforcement According A-Rated Pollster
David Strom
I was so surprised by this poll that I had to look into the pollster who put it out just to be certain that it wasn't some fly-by-night propaganda outlet.
It isn't. Several sites rate Cygnal Polling as having a slight liberal bias in their results, but as a high-factuality pollster that focuses mostly on private clients. And the results are so lopsided that they would have had to stack the deck by a huge margin to get the results that they did.
And the results are BRUTAL for Democrats, although they also tell us something about the Democrat strategy for the midterms. They are focused entirely on turning out their base and have decided to go all-in on the strategy of mobilizing their base and exhausting the rest of the population.
How brutal is the polling? Well, compared to the Ayatollah in Iran, they may be able to claim more popularity with the general public, and it's likely that people would rather have their city be declared a sanctuary than get a case of Lyme Disease. Colonoscopies and root canals may be considered less pleasant than being lectured to about morality by Chuck Schumer, but few other things are.
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]According to Cygnal's Brent Buchanon, Democrats are "catastrophically wrong" on the immigration issue, although I am not so certain. Not that he is misanalyzing the numbers, but perhaps on whether the Democrats are mistaken on their strategy.
68% of Democrats want to defund ICE. 58% of all voters oppose that. If you're looking for the single biggest electoral blindspot in American politics right now, you just found it. Cygnal just conducted a nationwide survey of midterm voters to see where things really stood on the issue of deportation, ICE, and immigration.
And I've never seen a major party this far out of step with the electorate on a single issue.
The conventional wisdom in Washington says immigration is a "complicated" issue where "reasonable people disagree." The media frames it as a debate between compassion and cruelty. Democratic strategists apparently believe their base's position is where the country is heading.
The data says they're wrong. Catastrophically wrong.
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