Posted on 09/14/2009 5:53:02 PM PDT by CedarDave
While most members of New Mexico's congressional delegation support a government-run public option for health care coverage, nearly half of the state's registered voters don't want one, a Journal Poll found.
Forty-nine percent of the voters surveyed statewide said they opposed a government-run insurance program that would compete with private industry.
Forty-two percent said they favored a government-run program, or public option. Nine percent said it would depend or they didn't know.
Intensity also was apparent. Respondents who "strongly opposed" a public option outnumbered those who "strongly favored" such a plan by more than 3-to-2.
Brian Sanderoff, president of Research and Polling Inc., which conducted the Journal Poll, said results show New Mexico voters — like factions of Congress — are "extremely polarized" in the public-option debate. ...
Journal Poll findings on the public option question included:
North central New Mexico was the only region of the state where a majority of voters said they supported a public option.
A majority of voters on the east side and in the northwest said they opposed a government-run program to compete with private insurers.
Voters in the Albuquerque metro area were split almost evenly.
Younger people, ages 18-34, were slightly more likely than people over the age of 65 to support a public option.
Voters who identified themselves as Hispanic were more likely to support a public option than Anglo voters. Fifty-three percent of Hispanics said they supported a government-run program, while 57 percent of Anglos opposed such a system.
Voters identifying themselves as liberal and conservative were far apart on a government-run health care program: 75 percent of liberals and only 17 percent of conservatives said they favored such a plan. Forty-nine percent of the voters calling themselves moderate favored a public option and 40 percent opposed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
Ping! to the NM list.
Thanks for pinging us Dave. Interesting article.
May not have an all Rat delegation for long.
May it be so.. or preferably all of 'em. I would think that Steve Pearce could easily get his back now that people know that Teague is a BDDINO.
(Blue Dog Democrat In Name Only... who votes in lockstep with the hard left.)
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