Are single-issue voters on immigration common?

[darklordoftech]

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[Cokeland Saxton]

Yes, sadly

[beesley]

Depends on your definition of common, but most racists or xenophobes are probably single issue voters on immigration, whether it's because they don't like seeing them or because of their 'white genocide' theories. They don't really care about busing or whatever. I would say that's too common.

[Tartarus Sauce]

There are a lot more of these people than I would like, but there are less of these people than the average person who fits this description thinks there are in the country. Your average single issue immigration voter seems to belive that over half the country thinks like them. At least that’s been my impression listening to them talk. In reality, people who prioritize immigration as their top issue are like 25%-30% of the country tops.

[darklordoftech]

Depends on your definition of common, but most racists or xenophobes are probably single issue voters on immigration, whether it's because they don't like seeing them or because of their 'white genocide' theories. They don't really care about busing or whatever. I would say that's too common.

My definition of “common” is “enough to sway an election” (whether it be a primary or general).

[RI]

There are a lot more of these people than I would like, but there are less of these people than the average person who fits this description thinks there are in the country. Your average single issue immigration voter seems to belive that over half the country thinks like them. At least that’s been my impression listening to them talk. In reality, people who prioritize immigration as their top issue are like 25%-30% of the country tops.

Way, way less than 25%-30%. There are far more single-issue abortion and guns rights voters and probably more single-issue healthcare voters. Probably more common than single-issue climate change voters, but that could change in the future.

[DINGO Joe]

Yes, most Southern whites are still angry about black immigration.

[QAnonKelly]

Only in the R primaries

[Skill and Chance]

No, not on immigration.  Between 2012 and 2018, it is likely there are single issue universal healthcare voters in GEs who otherwise don't really back the rest of the Dem platform.

[AN63093]

I don't know that I'm a single issue voter on this, but I can say that if the Dems had returned to where they used to be on this issue (and I don't mean decades ago; I mean if they just went back to where they were in the Obama years)… well then, I'd probably be voting Dem more frequently.

So- we're out there.  I don't know how many true single-issue voters there are on this, but plenty of people consider it their top issue, otherwise Trump would've never gotten elected, nor would there have been a schism in the GOP for him to take advantage of.