Universal health care is a winning issue.

We on this board always have a debate about "purity vs. electability." Should we be pragmatic and compromise some of our principals to be elected? Should we demand a perfect candidate, and not worry about electability? Should we meet somewhere in the middle of those? Well, on one issue, we don't have to make that choice: Universal Health Care.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll in mid-October shows that, when given the choice of universal health care and holding down taxes, universal coverage wins be an astonishing 80% to 17%! (My link is at the bottom.) So universal health care is not only good policy, but a winning issue.

I think all of our candidates should stand for some form of universal health care, whether it's a national, single-payer system or some subsidized form of our current insurance system.

http://pollingreport.com/health1.htm#Delivery

Scroll down to where it says, "Health Care delivery," and then scroll down just a bit farther until you see this question: "Which would you prefer, the current health..."

Not "fear of terrorism", but fear of losing one's health benefits and being financially ruined. See, it works for the unemployed and the employed!

:-)