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fivethirtyeight.com - 9/14/2009
When You Assume, You Make a Mess Out of Your Poll
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It's a bit difficult to reconcile the results of three questions from the new Washington Post/ABC News poll on health care reform: 16. Overall, given what you know about them, would you say you support or oppose the proposed changes to the health care system being developed by (Congress) and ...
Obama and Health Care, ABC News Washington Post Poll
abcnews.go.com - 9/14/2009
Obama and Health Care, ABC News Washington Post Poll
— abcnews.go.com — Bottom-line views on health care reform have stabilized but failed to improve since President Obama addressed the... nation , leaving him with a continued challenge in selling his plan to a public that remains skeptical about its benefits and costs ... (more) Obama and Health Care, ABC News Washington Post Poll

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WaPost Op-Ed Page Once Again Misleading Its Readers
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 9/14/2009
WaPost Op-Ed Page Once Again Misleading Its Readers
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Peter the Great, Czar of all the Russias If Kay Bailey Hutchison wants to claim that “A... few of them have formal titles, but most are simply known as ‘czars’” then fine. Maybe she’s ignorant, or maybe she’s a ... (more) WaPost Op-Ed Page Once Again Misleading Its Readers

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mudvillegazette.com - 9/15/2009
Hazardous duty
— mudvillegazette.com — A new book by a Washington Post reporter provides a graphic, second-by-second description of the U.S. military's... 2007 killing of two Reuters journalists in Baghdad, an incident that the news organization says it cannot investigate fully because the Pentagon has withheld key records of the ... (more) Hazardous duty

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Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Be easier if we just let her write the damn bill. Hmmm... Crunching the poll numbers on health care. The Bush recession continues. Compare and contrast.  Nothing like wingnut zombie lies.  

Is Healthcare Reform Gaining Momentum?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Nate Silver tries to parse the new WaPo poll. Not easy. But even Rasmussen, which seems to be a constant outlier to the right, shows support for the overhaul at its highest ever: In the days following the president’s speech, support for the plan has been moving up on a fairly consistent basis. Still, the intensity gap continues to favor those who oppose the plan. Currently, 28% Strongly Favor the proposed reform while 38% are Strongly Opposed. (see day-by-day numbers). In late August, 23% were strongly in favor of the plan and 43% were ...

Obama’s Health Care Speech No Game-Changer
GayPatriot — ... Nate Silver may well be the Michael Barone of the left.  He has a gift for analyzing polls and pulling out the significant nuggets to show trends in popular opinion.  He finds that the Washington Post makes a mess in ...

About that ABC/WaPo Healthcare Poll....
Daily Kos — ... That's pretty much what the public option is, so maybe the WaPo headline should be "76% Support the Public Option," (Ha.) The poll is hampered by more than just it's conventional wisdom "the public option is a fetish of the far left" fringe interpretation given the poll results by the article's authors Jon Cohen and Dan Balz. Nate Silver has an excellent analysis of the poll: ...

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CNN/Opinion Research Poll – September 11-13, 2009 – Obama and Economy — CNN Political Ticker 9/14/2009
TOPICS: How Obama has handled the economy. Full results (pdf)
CNN/Opinion Research Poll – September 11-13, 2009 – Health Care — CNN Political Ticker 9/14/2009
TOPICS: Obama approval rating; health care plan, Congress, GOP, Joe Wilson, approval rating on various issues. Full results (pdf)