jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.

Not really. That 25% damn near jives with the amount of the population that voted for Trump.

jerseyhoya wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.

Not really. That 25% damn near jives with the amount of the population that voted for Trump.

That's not really how this works.

thephan wrote:Michael Needham from the Heritage Foundation said that Nikki Haley is a great choice from UN because she has been out of the country like a dozen times

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.

Not really. That 25% damn near jives with the amount of the population that voted for Trump.

That's not really how this works.

In what way? I was glib, and obviously the comparison isn't perfect (the Q survey sample is registered voters) but the turnout of registered voters was low, and only 54% of eligible citizens cast a ballot. It's not outlandish to say that 75% of the population didn't cast a vote to support his immigration policy.

thephan wrote:Michael Needham from the Heritage Foundation said that Nikki Haley is a great choice from UN because she has been out of the country like a dozen times (on economic development trips tbf). That seems like a low bar. My feel is that she could have been more useful elsewhere.

President-elect Donald Trump announced several high-level appointments to his administration, naming Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, who has called for the death penalty for Edward Snowden, as director of the CIA; Alabama senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, who was denied a federal judgeship in the 1980s for making racist remarks, as attorney general; former Breitbart News editor Steve Bannon, who staffers said "aggressively pushed stories against immigrants, and supported linking minorities to terrorism and crime," as chief strategist; and Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who has said that fearing Muslims is rational, as national-security advisor. "Great," said former Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard David Duke.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.

Not really. That 25% damn near jives with the amount of the population that voted for Trump.

That's not really how this works.

In what way? I was glib, and obviously the comparison isn't perfect (the Q survey sample is registered voters) but the turnout of registered voters was low, and only 54% of eligible citizens cast a ballot. It's not outlandish to say that 75% of the population didn't cast a vote to support his immigration policy.

JUburton wrote:I just learned who Betsy DeVos is but I'm fairly confident in saying she is terrible. Ben Carson I know and is still terrible.

Frederick Hess of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute called DeVos a “smart and unapologetic champion for choice, which is what Trump has spoken a lot about. She’s a small government, state and local conservative.”

But others lambasted the choice, citing her involvement in Jeb Bush’s group, Foundation for Excellence in Education, which has championed the Common Core.

“President-elect Trump rightly slammed Governor Jeb Bush for his support of Common Core on the campaign trail,” said Frank Cannon, president of American Principles Project, which opposes Common Core.

“Betsy DeVos would be a very Jeb-like pick. It is puzzling, then, to see reports that the Trump transition team is considering an establishment, pro-Common Core Secretary of Education — this would not qualify as ‘draining the swamp’ — and it seems to fly in the face of what Trump has stated on education policy up to this point,” Cannon said.

When it comes to charter school oversight, DeVos has fought for fewer regulations in Michigan. DeVos and her husband helped pass Michigan’s charter school law in 1993. They also established the school choice group, the Great Lakes Education Project. Michigan’s charter schools are some of the least regulated in the country, with about 80 percent run by private companies. Chalkbeat reported this week.