The AP is out with an article trying to explain away the 58% of americans who support the Arizona immigration law according to the Washington Post/ABC poll. According to the AP, this support is undermined since only 46% of respondents thought that states should be able to make their own border policies. Liz Goodwin, the "national affairs writer" who put out this piece for AP is truly an idiot. The Arizona law does not make a separate border policy for Arizona, it enforces the national policy set by Washington (which the feds are not enforcing even though it is the law.) The two questions in the poll conflict only if you first assume that all the respondents are idiots and that they do not understand the Arizona law. Of course, that does not stop Liz from setting up the second question as a straw man that can be used to knock the Arizona law.
The point of the poll is that even with the constant asault from the media and the Obamacrats, just under 60% of all respondents said they favor the Arizona law. That means that about two thirds of those with opinions favor the law (leaving out those who said they had no opinion). This is a losing issue for the Obamacrats and I think they are starting to understand this. There have been very few anti - Arizona statements and articles out of the DNC talking points recently. Before long, I expect Obama to endorse the Arizona law after doing a "full review" of it.
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