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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
... Nate Silver has a good post on various health care opinion polls. His conclusion is that the majority of people do, indeed, want a government-provided insurance option to be included. ...
NY Times: Wide Support For Government-Administered Health Care
Daily Kos —
... Nate Silver helps us out with a nice health care poll round-up over at fivethirtyeight.com (he didn't include CBS/NY Times, but has the other recent polls all in one place): ...
Rightwing Democrats Are the Problem
Open Left - Front Page —
... The real risk is that health care reform will be undermined by "centrist" Democratic senators who either prevent the passage of a bill or insist on watering down key elements of reform. I use scare quotes around "centrist," by the way, because if the center means the position held by most Americans, the self-proclaimed centrists are in fact way out in right field. ...
Polls, Polls, Polls: GOP Spinning Away on Health Care
Daily Kos —
... The part about the costs associated with reform is about the only thing that this poll has in common with the massive amount of mainstream polling that's been done recently. Nate has all the goods on those polls that show consisent support and recognition of the need for reform, and very high numbers of support for a public option. ...
Timid Blue Dogs and 'Centrists' Pose Greatest Threat to Healthcare Reform -- Tell Congress To Act Boldly Now
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... from multiple research firms that shows very strong support for serious healthcare reform. 85 percent of respondents to the latest NYT/CBS polling said the healthcare system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. Blue Dog Liberal commentators Monday have noted that certain Democrats already are buckling under the P.R. offensive from conservatives and special interest lobbies. Under the heading, ...
Cornyn Cites Inaccurate Powerline Blog Post To Claim That The Public Health Insurance Isn’t Popular
Think Progress —
... that found comparatively little support for the creation of a public health insurance option, with just 41 percent of Americans supporting such a move. But as Nate Silver documented last week, it is the Rasmussen poll — not the NYT/CBS poll — that falls outside typical levels of support for a public health insurance found in other recent surveys: ...
More Polls Show Support for Public Health Care Option
Comments from Left Field —
... Conservative bloggers have been working hard to discredit the results of a New York Times/CBS News poll that showed strong public support for a government-administered health care option to run alongside privately insured health care. Nate Silver has made their job harder with two recent posts which indicate that that support is real, although Nate approaches each poll with his usual critical eye. ...
Jason Rosenbaum: Senator Feinstein, Stop Nay-Saying On Health Reform
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... . As Nate Silver, polling guru and most accurate forecaster of the 2008 elections, put it, "Overall, polling points toward the public option being at least mildly popular and indeed perhaps quite popular." ...
Grassley: In Order For Health Care To Be ‘Bipartisan, ‘We Need To Make Sure There Is No Public Option’
Think Progress —
... By claiming that a public option would destroy bipartisanship, Grassley is ignoring the preferences of a strong majority of Americans. Earlier this week, a ...
Senator Feinstein, Stop Nay-Saying On Health Reform
Crooks and Liars —
... . As Nate Silver , polling guru and most accurate forecaster of the 2008 elections, put it, "Overall, polling points toward the public option being at least mildly popular and indeed perhaps quite popular." Second, proposals in Congress are moving in the direction of offering Americans this choice that they clearly want. On Friday, the three committees in the House with jurisdiction over health care, endorsed by the House leadership, ...
Art Levine: Health Care Lobbyists vs. The People: The Final Showdown
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and the President's White House televised meeting on health care reform shine a new spotlight on the issue as the political battle heats up. Meanwhile, grass-roots reformers organized by Health Care for America Now (HCAN) are coming to Washington on Thursday to lobby for real change, including the public option that gives consumers a choice between a public plan or using private insurance.
The public, most polls show, backs this approach by over 60% to as much as 76% percent, as a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found. Strikingly, ...
I Got The "Make Them Do It" Blues
Open Left - Front Page —
... People in Congress could change their mind based on comprehensive polling analysis showing more than 60% support for the public option nationwide. That would be an example of responsive governance, and perfectly fine by me. However, Specter and other conservative Democrats would have come out in support of a public option long ago if they cared about public opinion. ...
Corporate Astroturf Domination of Government
Open Left - Front Page —
... The same situation appears on health care. The White House call center has said that there are more calls against the public option than in favor of it. However, comprehensive, non-partisan polling on the public option shows more than 60% of the country in favor. ...
Morning Joe Allows Guests To Pimp Lewin Group 'Research'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... It's also worth pointing out that Price was allowed to state that government intervention in health care is "not what the American people want." In fact, the public option has been and remains astoundingly popular with the American people. ...
Is Left-Wing Governance Possible In America?
Open Left - Front Page —
... Consider the incredible effort necessary for large Democratic majorities to even pass overwhelmingly popular ideas like the public option (supported by 60%+ of Americans); ...
Congress Rarely Passes Unpopular Laws
Open Left - Front Page —
... to have spent the surplus different, a majority didn't actually oppose the tax cuts.
Policies for which I couldn't find any useful polling: I couldn't find anything useful, outside of obviously skewed polls, on telecom immunity for FISA.
Popular stuff that didn't become law: Finally, there were and are some important examples of policies that were and are popular, but which have not become law. Starting Iraq withdrawal in 2006-2007, passing a public option for health care, and allowing LGBTs to serve in the military are all ...
Triggers are Nothing but a Plan to Kill the Public Option
Firedoglake —
... The overwhelming majority of Americans support a real public health insurance option. Poll after poll confirms this. And the public option is even ...
