What is behind the intense interest in the recent immigration debate?
Perhaps: The debate isn’t more intense than any of the other cycles in your forty years, it’s just that you didn’t have satellite radio to flip through and hear the debate rage on. You probably didn’t read as many newspapers as you do listen to radio stations, for example. Alternatively, the proliferation of accessible media has actually cascaded the debate to a greater level. Since everyone is talking about it, everyone will talk about it.