GOP Pollster: Republican Voters Don’t Care About ‘Pathway To Citizenship’
Source: TPM
BENJY SARLIN 9:46 AM EDT, THURSDAY MARCH 28, 2013
Pro-reform Republicans are frantically trying to massage the language around immigration legislation, especially the phrase "pathway to citizenship," which Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) disdains even as he endorses an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But according to a GOP pollster, the citizenship fight is largely a figment of the Beltway's imagination, generating little concern among Republican voters in focus groups.
"When you bring up the phrase 'pathway to citizenship,' they don't know what it means," John McLaughlin, a pollster for GOP firm Resurgent Republic, told reporters Thursday, according to the Huffington Post. "There's no reaction."
Their findings are in line with a recent poll by the Brookings Institute and Public Religion Research Institute, which found majority support for immigration reform with citizenship among Republicans, white evangelicals, and white working class voters.
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and the send money back home. She wished all those illegal Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico would go home they are getting more money than she gets 
We all just sat there apparently she never got the memo or her hair dye is rotting whats left of her thought process. She also couldn't understand if you work more you can get more when you collect SS.
That term has always revved up their base. Once they realize that is what 'pro-reform' republicans are referring to by 'a path to citizenship', their support will evaporate.
Most republicans (not the fundamentalist base) have supported this for a long time. It's just that the tea party wing of the party blocked any progress. Pew had a poll over a year ago that showed this.
Only republicans over 65 and those who supported the tea party opposed a path to citizenship even back then. They were so vocal about it, though, that they skewed the republican primary into a contest over who could be the most opposed to 'amnesty'. 55% of all republicans approved of a path to citizenship as either a primary focus (14%) of immigration reform or a shared focus (41%).
As you would expect, large majorities of all types of Democrats supported a path to citizenship then.
