Saturday, January 19, 2019

Someone should tell NPR to read its own poll

Wall shutdown drives Hispanics to back Trump
Don Surber's blog ^ | Jan 18, 2019 | Don Surber 

According to NPR, most Hispanics support President Donald John Trump. His job approval is +4 among Hispanics, while it is -10 among whites and -76 among black people.
The poll was conducted last weekend. It showed a 37-point gain for the president among Hispanics in two months.
The NPR poll consistently shows President Trump has a low job approval. He was minus 11 in the first one in February 2017. Two years later, he is minus 14. So his low numbers overall are not news.
But going from minus 33 among Hispanic voters to plus 4 in two months is huge news, especially when the media assumed that the wall was racist and turning off Hispanic voters.
Media-ite delved into the NPR poll to find this nugget.
Media-ite reported, "The January poll was conducted during the government shutdown over border wall funding, most notably. So the big swing among Latinos was while Trump and Democrats faced off over funding for the wall."
Glenn Reynolds observed, "Well, that’s a shock all right. I wonder what the Democrats’ internal polls show. They haven’t been acting like they think this shutdown thing is a winner for them, but wow. Or else this is an outlier, but if so it’s a big outlier."
One explanation is that legal immigrants resent line jumping illegal aliens.
Another explanation is that Hispanics are more likely to be victims of MS-13 rapists, muggers, and murderers.
Another explanation is that Democrats take Hispanics for granted and let them down.
Finally, President Trump is making America great again. Hispanic employment is at an all-time high.
Whatever the reason, this development is news.
Someone should tell NPR to read its own poll.

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