Now here are some numbers for you: on immigration, 38 percent of Americans trust Republicans, 50 percent trust the Democrats. 61 percent disagree with Bush's handling of the issue, and nearly 70 percent think immigrants are taking jobs Americans don't want, rather than stealing positions natives covet. I don't have trend lines for this, so I don't know how much is simple ricochet from the GOP's demonstrated incompetence on every other issue facing our polity, but if the right thought they were going to demagogue this through 2006, they've got some work to do.
