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A bad poll for everyone involved, including Mitt. Granted, he’s gained nine points since the last time the Journal surveyed the race (Huckabee was still in play at the time), but only 45 percent of Republicans say they’re happy with the field as is. Four years ago at this time, that number was 73 percent. Just 24 percent say they’re confident in Romney’s ability to be president; in 2007, even John Edwards hit 31 percent. Clearly the base wants more options and the Palin/Cain/Perry constituencies aren’t natural defectors to Romney, so one of those three is bound to start consolidating...

The feds claim that Arizona oversteps its bounds because its law "pursues only one goal--'attrition' "--at the expense of others, such as concentrating enforcement on the most dangerous aliens, protecting the rights of asylum seekers, and maintaining amity with Mexico and other foreign countries. The real issue in this case is not whether the federal government has the power to pre-empt Arizona's immigration law, as it asserts in the lawsuit. It unquestionably does. The question is whether Washington has properly exercised that power.