Well, it worked

The manipulation of the news cycle has been successful. According to this AP article, Americans Say Immigration a Rising Concern:

When people were asked this past week to name the top national problem that came to mind, 13 percent said immigration — four times the number who said that in January. Roughly the same number, 14 percent of those polled, named the economy, according to the poll of 500 adults conducted April 3-5. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Now, let's see. What changed, exactly? Did we suddenly have millions of immigrants pour over the border in the last two months? Or could this be just an election year tactic designed to distract and divide Americans, just like other imminent faux threats to the American-Way-Of-Life like, oh say, Gay Marriage or Flag Burning or some other such non-issue?

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