Polls Show Why Republicans Could Win Big in November

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You also ignored Rasmussen's Poll, the most conservative polling organization, showing not only that most Americans want a public option but that the reason the final version of the Health Care reform became unpopular was that the public option and the Medicare Buy in option for those under age 65 was dropped. The mandate was quite unpopular but favored by the insurance industry as I've mentioned several times. Why don't you address my points. All you do is spit back right wing propaganda that isn't relevant to the arguments made. To believe that the idea of a public option is unpopular is to utterly ignore reality.

steve of IL 6:20PM July 14, 2010

“Alleged” Steve ?
“SurveyUSA seems to be a respected polling service. I don't know about their alleged connections to MoveOn.org but they seem to know what they're talking about. ”
Did you read your own link Steve ? Let me quote from your link:
"SurveyUSA data collection for this project was underwritten by MoveOn.org. Poll respondents did not hear MoveOn's name. SurveyUSA is an independent research company and does not endorse any particular cause or ideology. SurveyUSA has no stake in the outcome of any health-care legislation and is a disinterested party in the health-care debate."
Notice I give full quote not ‘3 word quote’ as you like to do Steve.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5ba17aa2-f1b9-4445-a6b8-62b9d1ba8693
Some problems with SurveyUSA
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Abramowitz_challenges_blog_surveys.html
“However, SurveyUSA is aware of no other research company that can match the local and hyper-local research credentials of SurveyUSA”
Not Nation wide:
http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/hyper-local-polling/
Anyhow, you're beating a dead horse.
By most measure there will be less Democrats in Congress in January. Public option could not get passed with super majority. What chance then.
More likely obamacare will fall by the wayside:
“53% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law”
Monday, July 12, 2010
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law
Depending on the strength of Republican win, either obamacare will be repealed or changed. If Democrats stay strong may have obamacare as is. After years and years of waiting.

Bill Hedges of MO 6:17AM July 14, 2010

Tax cuts generate more revenue into the goverment , proven , politicians can't quit spending , get a clue ..
Today we have unfunded pension plans , unfunded entitlements , unfunded S. S. , unfunded unemployment extensions , people unfunded buying houses they shouldn't have , unfunded Post Office , medicare , mediciad .
We have an underfunded goverment , because they keep spending every dime they get and hope to get . Until that changes , we will be an unfunded nation .
You can not keep taxing the "rich" , they and their jobs will leave or they will run out of money , then what ?

Hunter of WI 7:40PM July 13, 2010

CBS poll shows that in early 2010 just before vote in Congress, two thirds still backed public option.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5401123-503544.html
NYT/CBS poll shows nearly three quarters support public option
The national telephone survey, which was conducted from June 12 to 16, found that 72 percent of those questioned supported a government-administered insurance plan — something like Medicare for those under 65 — that would compete for customers with private insurers. Twenty percent said they were opposed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.html
SurveyUSA seems to be a respected polling service. I don't know about their alleged connections to MoveOn.org but they seem to know what they're talking about.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5ba17aa2-f1b9-4445-a6b8-62b9d1ba8693
The Rasmussen poll, the move conservative one out there, showed that Obama's health care reform lost major support because it didn't have the public option;
Just 34% of voters nationwide support the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats if the so-called “public option” is removed. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 57% oppose the plan if it doesn't include a government-run health insurance plan to compete with private insurers.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/without_public_option_enthusiasm_for_health_care_reform_especially_among_democrats_collapses
I think that it is pretty non-controversial that most supported a public option. That is what made the health care reform so popular and that is why the GOP fought it. Again, the GOP cares more about its friends in big business than the American people. They are corrupt and evil. They claim Obama is corrupt but the GOP is less a political party than a corrupt organization that sells political favors to the very rich for big cash.

steve of IL 6:36PM July 13, 2010

Too bad there weren't any conservatives during the Bush Administration which created the current deficit mess, and more important the cratering economic collapse Bush was responsible for. But we get a pack of sorry reactionary pikers who want obstruct any efforts to economic recovery and go back to failed Bush Voodoo economics.
We can't afford Kyl's idea to continue unfunded tax cuts.
We can't afford to keep subsidizing oil companies with billions, most them foreign anyway.
Eight years of tax cuts under Bush left the economy in a major downturn like we haven't seen since the Great Depression.
What more proof do we need that the garbage economics republicans are selling don't work.
Everyone hates politicians, but Americans hold Republicans responsible for the major recession we are in. American hate Republicans more than the Democrats, for good reason. Now we get lunatics like Rand Paul and Sharron Angle to make it clear republicans and teabaggers are wack jobs and not looking out for American interests, evident in their support of BP over Americans.

Louise of KS 4:54PM July 13, 2010

Louise,
Personally I pray the "Government Teat" dries up!

Stoneman7 of FL 12:21PM July 13, 2010

For Louise of KS, In the last 100 years Democrats have controlled Congress for 88 of them. So when people blame Republicans they are not stating from fact. Typically when we have a Democrat controlled we have a republican president. When we have had a Democrat president the other side in congress is not as strong or conservative. This time Americans screwed up. We have a super majority in Congress, large numbers of the give me generation and a president who is controlled by those who wish to take over America. The unions saw this and decided to do whatever it took to get Obama elected. So now we have the perfect storm. Democrats control it all, the president is on the democratic fascist side of the equation and those who financed Obama now see a chance to take over America and control it. When this happens those who voted for this need to be held accountable and punished. Maybe even removed from the country for their actions. The good news is Obama is illegal. Not the Birth certificate crap. but his father is not American . So Obama is not a natural born American as required by the constitution. Ever wonder why he wants the constitution destroyed???? So using this we can get all his bills and policies thrown out.

robert of OK 9:55AM July 13, 2010

"Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits… In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now."
John F. Kennedy
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2003/08/The-Historical-Lessons-of-Lower-Tax-Rates

Bill Hedges of MO 12:54AM July 13, 2010

Republicans created this current depression and they are doing everything in their powers to stall any recovery.
Never to doubt the ability to dumb down the country, but it would be idiotic to bringing back the bums who crashed the economy and who are obstructing to keep the economy down.
Republicans might have had a chance in November but the wacko nutjob teabag candidates will stop them cold. When Rand Paul has to try to argue that's he is mainstream politics, seriously, you know these tea bag candidates are just clowns tripping up on themselves and their lies.
Why is a clown who wants to do away with the Federal Government trying to get a job in the same government, just like the job his dad has had for decades. The same clown is running on a term limits platform, but obviously never bothered to urge his dad to quit sucking from the government's teats.
Hypocrites one and all.
And now the Republican's big campaign issue is to cut the deficit by keeping taxes cuts for the rich to be financed straight form the deficit spending.
Go figure!

Louise of KS 12:04AM July 13, 2010

I keep telling Steve I am a tea drinker, but he tells me we are violent folks. Of course he can't prove but he knows is true.
Steve knows a lot with his MA in political science. Why oh why do I not believe he has a MA.

Bill Hedges of MO 10:34PM July 12, 2010