Poll: 61% Of Americans Think Arizona Was Right To Act On Illegal Immigration

I like this poll, less for what it has to say about Arizona and its illegal immigration than for what it says about an increasingly federalist attitude in America.

The new poll finds 61 percent of voters nationally think Arizona was right to take action instead of waiting for the federal government to do something on immigration. That’s more than twice as many as the 27 percent who think securing the border is a federal responsibility and Arizona should have waited for Washington to act. . . . Significantly more voters think the Obama administration should wait and see how the new law works (64 percent) than think the administration should try to stop it (15 percent).

Glenn Reynolds also think it says something about the media’s ability to shape a narrative:

What this poll says is that despite weeks of national-media coverage that was unrelentingly negative, calling the bill racist, drawing Nazi analogies, etc. — only 15 percent are really against it. Sorry guys — you’re still talking, but people aren’t listening.

People are listening. They’re just less likely, perhaps than ever before, to believe what they hear/see/read.