On supporting Arizona II

A polling outfit called TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (weirdly abbreviated TIPP) finds that 51 percent of Americans support Arizona's law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of those stopped for other reasons. Only 35 percent approve of the U.S. Justice Department's attempt to invalidate the law. But here's the fun part:

“What is interesting here is that Americans are on the side of Arizona and seem to not share the US government’s views against the law, despite wide media coverage of the clash between [President] Obama and [Governor] Brewer on this issue,” says Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP.

Despite? Couldn't it be that Americans are supporting Arizona because of the wide media coverage? Blue skies! -- Dan Ford