{"id":392014,"date":"2019-01-08T04:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/polling-on-the-border-wall-2\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T04:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:37:48","slug":"polling-on-the-border-wall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/polling-on-the-border-wall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling on the Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Polling on the border wall shows that Trump\u2019s proposal is very unpopular amongst the American electorate, especially amongst the people who live near the Mexican border; but Republicans nationwide do support his proposal \u2014 and overwhelmingly. Trump\u2019s base is the mass of people who approve of Trump and his initiatives no matter what (they buy the Trump brand, regardless), but even Republicans who live near the Mexican border oppose him on this.<\/p>\n<p>During 14-17 October 2018, CBS News asked 1,108 registered voters \u201cDo you favor or oppose building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to try to stop illegal immigration?\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.vn\/xUClD#selection-3483.1-3483.106\">the results<\/a> were:<\/p>\n<p>37% \u201cFavor\u201d<br \/>60% \u201cOppose\u201d<br \/>3% \u201cUnsure\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, amongst ONLY Republicans, the results were:<\/p>\n<p>76% \u201cFavor\u201d<br \/>19% \u201cOppose\u201d<br \/>4% \u201dUnsure\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8 earlier polls that CBS took on this question since late 2016 showed essentially similar results. Public opinion on the border-wall matter has been quite stable over time.<\/p>\n<p>On December 19th, the <em>Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/state\/texas\/article152402734.html\">headlined<\/a> \u201cMOST TEXANS ALONG THE BORDER DON\u2019T WANT TRUMP\u2019S WALL, AND MANY DOUBT IT WILL BE BUILT\u201d, and their reporter, Gordon Dickson opened:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many Texans who live along the U.S.-Mexico border support President Donald Trump, but their affection for the New York real estate mogul-turned-politician comes with a caveat:<\/p>\n<p>They do not want a wall.<\/p>\n<p>The Star-Telegram recently visited a 325-mile stretch of the Lone Star State\u2019s boundary with Mexico to gauge&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/01\/polling-on-the-border-wall\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling on the border wall shows that Trump\u2019s proposal is very unpopular amongst the American electorate, especially amongst the people who live near the Mexican border; but Republicans nationwide do support his proposal \u2014 and overwhelmingly. Trump\u2019s base is the mass of people who approve of Trump and his initiatives no matter what (they buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}