Via twitter, NBC’s Mark Murray clarified the numbers as such, “54% of the center opposed a path to citizenship in the survey, and 58% of the center backed photo ID when voting”
NBC News and Esquire Magazine teamed up for a poll that is now being hailed across all NBC platforms for finding the “New American Center.” The poll finds that 51% of American are “bound by a surprising set of shared ideas.” One finding NBC News is choosing not to highlight is that 75% of those in the New American Center oppose “immigration reforms that would provide a path to citizenship for those who came here illegally.”
Because that 75% represents only the New American Center and not those who qualify as politically conservative (or liberal), it seems safe to assume that among those polled, somewhere around 80% oppose the Immigration Reform Bill that Democrats, some Republicans, and all of NBC is so aggressively pushing.
This so-called “New American Center” leans conservative in a number of other areas:
Majorities support offshore drilling (81 percent) and the death penalty (90 percent), and the end of affirmative action in hiring and education (57 percent). Most people in the center believe respect for minority rights has gone overboard, in general, harming the majority in the process (63 percent). And just one in four support immigration reforms that would provide a path to citizenship for those who came here illegally.
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