Reality is in the tank for Obama.

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Polls? ... I love the numbers but . . .

Thanks for this info CM1 ...

What were the poll numbers like in 1993 for the Clinton Health Plan?

What was the margin of vote that derailed the Clinton plan on the hill?

Oh I know -- you don't have to remind me that we are in a totally different century. My 62 year old sciatic nerve reminds me everyday.

But, I couldn't help but notice that there is no mention of who's data the following snippet is referring to in that CNN link:

Other recent polls show six in 10 think the government should provide health insurance or take responsibility for providing health care to all Americans.

The most recent 60% number I can come up with is over four months old in Quinnipiac poll conducted in late October 2007 and published November 1, 2007:

By a 57 - 38 percent margin, American voters feel it is the government's responsibility to make sure everyone in the U.S. has adequate health care, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Voters also feel 60 - 33 percent that the government should provide health insurance for those who can't afford it.

[42. Do you think it's the government's responsibility to provide health insurance for those who can't afford it, or don't you think so?]

By a 57 - 38 percent margin, American voters feel it is the government's responsibility to make sure everyone in the U.S. has adequate health care, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Voters also feel 60 - 33 percent that the government should provide health insurance for those who can't afford it.

Democrats say 84 - 13 percent that it's the government's job to assure health care for all, while Republicans oppose the notion 62 - 32 percent. Independent voters support the health care concept 54 - 41 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. On the health insurance question, Republican opposition drops to 53 - 41 percent.

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From October 23 - 29, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,636 American voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.4 percent, including 678 Republicans with a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percent, and 742 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 3.6 percent.

www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1114

I personally would like to see more recent number crunching.

Do not, and I repeat do not go over to the March 2 Rasmussen Health Care Polling article unless you wish to be spun into a very very confused state when you're done reading that pretzel poll.

~OGD~

Even Fox News polls continue to show rising public support for Obama, all while the talking-heads, not all of whom are Republican (I'm talking about you, Tweety), on those same news channels keep telling us how disappointed the public is in Obama.

I heard Mike Malloy point out something quite telling regarding the media's coverage of that Limbaugh CPAC speech. It was no surprise that Fox carried it in it's entirety, but so did CNN. In fact, CNN did so without ANY commercial breaks. The entire nearly 90 minutes of it! Who else in the country, other than the president himself (and, I'm not positive the POTUS would get such), would be given such commercial-break free coverage for almost 90 minutes?

Malloy said, an inside contact at CNN told him the order to do this for Limbaugh came directly down from the president of CNN. Maybe, the right would like to tell us some more of their fantasies about the liberal media.

Dear, CMan, I'm going to link your post to my post:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/therap/2009/03/the-fallacy-of-republican-heal.php

Your post adds a powerful component to why we should go with single payer. I'm collecting lots of current posts - so that a reader can easily go from point to point to point in a convincing story!