Democrats will obstruct attempts to implement comprehensive immigration reform, even though such comprehensive immigration reform will include protections of the DACA policy...
Rather they will (as minority Party) demand that DACA be legislated separately, and look to blame the President and Republicans when the 800,000 so called "dreamers" become eligible for deportation.
Moreover, look for the GOP to cave into the pressures and likely do exactly what the Democrats want. The only question is whether or not Trump will veto immigration legislation that does not include priorities that he campaigned on.
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Yes, the GOP leadership on Congress is the party of stupid.
Yep, dumb
Sean Trende tweeted a graph of the vote share for each region of Ohio for the past century (more or less). His observation was that the vote percentages haven't shifted much in that century.
What jumped out at me was the way the percentages shifted in individual elections recently. For instance, Northeast Ohio, which comprises 30-35% of the vote, has spiked upward in percentage when Democrats won the White House going back as far as 1964. The Cincinnati area, conversely, has spiked upward in percentage when Republicans won the White House. The Appalachia region, which had dropped over several decades to the smallest percentage (7.5% in 2012), saw it's share of total votes cast rise to 12.5% in 2016.
This supports arguments that it is not so much that voters change the parties they vote for when there are party shifts at the presidential level, but that voters either vote for one party or do not vote when the presidency changes parties.
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