[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

If Americans disapprove of this bill by the 61% and growing that polls indicate

The trouble with these polls is that just give %s of support or opposed. What we need is a poll that will ask something like:

Select one of the following

a) I support the senate healthcare bill

b) I do not support it because it spends and taxes too much and allows the government too much power

c) I do not support it because it does not spend and tax enough, and does not go far enough to involve the government in healthcare.

[Will88]

What we need is a poll that will ask something like:

There have been polls which break down the fors and againsts by Republican and Dim. Those would tell you about what your discussing here.

[Will88]

“Democrats, whose legislators control both the House and Senate, continue to be the big supporters of the health care plan. Seventy-one percent (71%) of those in the president’s party favor it. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans and 69% of voters not affiliated with either party oppose the plan.”

That’s from a Rasmussen summary from 12/14. I guess they’ll have a new one this week.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The trouble with these polls is that just give %s of support or opposed. What we need is a poll that will ask something like: Select one of the following a) I support the senate health-care bill b) I do not support it because it spends and taxes too much and allows the government too much power.c) I do not support it because it does not spend and tax enough, and does not go far enough to involve the government in health-care.”

Yep, that's why I been doing those posts on the liberal backlash. They are a part of why Obama’s polls have dropped. It's our job to use those fractures in the democrat coalitions. Liberals are a powder-keg ready to blow on this Senate bill and it is now Pelosi’s job to sell them out for a legislative victory. This was the plan all along.

Pelosi Signals Openness To Bill Without Public Option, Others Also Eye Possibilities