Opposition To Obama's Immigration Order Is Not Huge

The chart above was made from a Hart Research Associates Poll done on November 19th and 20th of a random national sample of 800 likely voters, with a 3.5 point margin of error.

The chart above was made from a Quinnipiac University Poll done between November 18th and 23rd of a random national sample of 1,623 registered voters, with a 2.4 point margin of error.

The chart above was made from a YouGov Poll done between November 20th and 23rd of a random national sample of 1,000 adults, with a 4 point margin of error.

I posted about the results of a Latino Decisions Poll, which showed that Hispanics overwhelmingly approve of President Obama using his executive order power to change immigration rules (letting millions of undocumented immigrants stay in this country). That showed the Republicans are in danger of alienating Hispanics with their opposition to the president's action, which would hurt them in 2016.

The only hope the GOP had was to create massive opposition to the president's action among the general public. And they have done their best to do that -- accusing him of violating the law and the Constitution by issuing the executive order, and threatening to defund immigration programs or shut down the government again or even try to impeach the president. But as these three polls show, their temper tantrum doesn't seem to have had the desired effect.

Only one of the polls, the Hart Research Poll, shows a majority in favor of the president's action. But even more important, is the fact that none of the polls have shown the Republicans have been able to get even a small majority of people to oppose what the president has done. And that means the Republicans do NOT have a mandate to take aggressive action to try and overturn what the president has done.

This probably won't stop the Republicans from trying to do something, especially the most rabid extremists among them, because their teabagger base will expect it. But it's not going to win them a lot of friends in the general public.