so why aren’t the DC Democrats listening? (Maybe they are? Can we get it in more than name only?)
New polling results released by the Washington Post.
First the numbers you’re going to hear about on the “news”: The nation is evenly divided when it comes to supporting or opposing the changes in health insurance being proposed by the Obama administration and Congress. 45% of the Washington Post-ABC News poll said they support the proposed changes, but 47% are opposed.
Now you know what you’ll hear … let’s get on to the real story.
10/18/09 – Summary Table
a. Expanding health care coverage to people who don’t have it now
Too far | Not far enough | About right | No opinion |
28 | 35 | 33 | 5 |
b. Controlling the costs of health care overall
Too far | Not far enough | About right | No opinion |
30 | 36 | 29 | 6 |
8. Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans? Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat?
No opinion | |||||||
NET | Strongly | Somewhat | NET | Somewhat | Strongly | ||
10/18/09 | 57 | 36 | 21 | 40 | 9 | 31 | 3 |
9/12/09 | 55 | 33 | 22 | 42 | 11 | 31 | 3 |
8/17/09 | 52 | 33 | 19 | 46 | 11 | 35 | 2 |