we counseln t do immigration reform because president obama issued the affirmative action. these are continual excuses. the baottom line is espionager boehner cannot get hisqaa caucuses together. if you look at i love maps so we ve got to have another map. i really do love maps. if you look at where the affo affordable care act. let s look where people are signing up for it. these are in red states where republicans are saying it s not in my interest to do it because people don t trust president obama and he s the reason we can t do it. if you look at states like florida and alabama, you have 60%. people in kentucky, they re actively signing up the for it. the toxicity of it, i wonder if that s going be enough.
martin. i want to go to you first. this has become not just a der crammic but a fair issue. there are a fair number of politicians getting on board. there s two issues. there s not the tremendous lobbying effort. living proof is 13 states have it up there now and kentucky, georgia, utah, and ohio are not exactly liberal states. look at utah, kentucky, florida, republicans sponsored legislation to put it on so that become as whole separate issue. legalization will bring it out. it will be a whole other conversation. i ve never been in a conversation with ee ann elected official where we ve talked about the politics of pot. it s not one that moves a lot of voters either way, so there s
even last year president obama was dancing around $9 an hour and people were saying that s dangerous. then they started doing polling on it. it s amazing on polling. democrats were through the roof in favor of it. independents are through the roof in favor of it. a majority of republicans are in favor of it. there ooh s a quinnipiac pol. republicans, 52%. democrat, 93%. independents, that s the big deal, 69%. the quinnipiac is good. there s lots of other polling. it s real in-depth. what it finds is when you go up the numbers, grow to nine, you go to 10, you go to 11, you go to 13, yes, it does start to slow down, but not that much. what the democrats have figured out and it s very, very important for this. if you re going to try to make this an issue, you re not going
that tent s got big holes in it. so we ve got elected officials sitting in there, getting ready to file. i think you ll watch after the filings in march and both parties have. it s a hot issue both ways. it cuts both ways in our party right now. let s get march out of the way. thing speaker boehner is doing a marvelous job. i like him. i like speaker boehner and speaker gingrich. two remarkable speakers. i knew you all wouldn t, but i m okay with that. watch after the march filings. the republicans are not going to lose the house. that s a pipe dream. and that s why talking about trust issues with the president is good politics for our party. if you look at where hispanic voters are concentrated, right, it s most decidedly with texas, not where republicans are facing them. we have a map that gives you the cluster of sort of the hispanic congregation.
were the other reasons his fellow republicans don t trust the president. they pointed to the irs scandal, the benghazi stuff and the nsa revelations and then the obamacare decisions by the administration as evidence of how the government and administration unilaterally decides which portions of the law to enforce and which ones not to enforce and that further undermines. you see what senator rubio just did there? the same menu of conspiracy theories and full obama scandals that animate the far right have become the excuse for not doing policy that s in the republicans own long-term interest when it comes to administration and they ran to ride this trust narrative into the november elections but there are a couple of problems with this argument. first, the gop s regulation that they can t trust it sim sli isn t supported by this record because the fact is no president has been tougher on enforcing immigration laws than this president. take a look at this chart. the rate of annual depor