How can half of America be against the public option when half of America

valerief

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Tue Aug-18-09 05:48 PM
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How can half of America be against the public option when half of America

doesn't even know there's a healthcare bill pending?
:shrug:

Just have to remember Jay Leno's man-on-the-street interviews to know I'm not talking out of my butt.

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Laelth

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:01 PM
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1. Good point. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

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OneTenthofOnePercent

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:09 PM
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2. They poll a number of people.

Given that the sample size and demographic of the polled people are both adequetely large and diverse... the sample set serves as an indicator for the population as a whole. If done correctly, results can be reasonably accurate.

For example: As a principal, if you wanted to know the students' favorite lunch meal in a school of 2000 students you would not have to spend the effort to poll each student. Simply ask about 10%-20% strategically choosen students and you would arrive at the correct answer with a fraction of the effort.

Google "population sampling"

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valerief

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:29 PM
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3. But how can half of America be for public option, half be against, and half be ignorant of the

Edited on Tue Aug-18-09 06:30 PM by valerief

healthcare bill? That's 150%.

I know it's done with sampling, but, geez, most (I'll bet) people haven't a clue about this issue at all anyway.

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OneTenthofOnePercent

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Wed Aug-19-09 12:02 PM
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10. Thay must make an assumtion regarding the people

that don't know about the issue. Perhaps they make the assumption that if those people did know, they would likely agree with a certain demographic fit group that was polled - taking into account many different variables.

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nmunderground

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:34 PM
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4. Whats does this mean

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valerief

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:45 PM
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5. Bobbleheads on teevee are saying half of America is against public option and

half is for it.

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KoKo

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:48 PM
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6. Because Obama rolled it out without a PLAN...He left it to Congress

so his hands wouldn't be "dirtied" with it. It's what his advisers told him.

The same folks who brought you Bush after a STOLEN ELECTION said: "Go with us!"

:shrug: Maybe others have ideas that will convince me otherwise. So far the track record is the "same old..same old..divisiveness..throwing the Dems on the Left under the bus and pushing towards the CENTER...(whatever the crap CENTER IS THESE DAYS?) You tell ME what the CENTER IS?

I'm Open?

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maxsolomon

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Tue Aug-18-09 07:01 PM
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8. It's actually the method congress requested

Clinton rolled out a plan, and congress debated it. This time they wanted to write the legislation, and we're getting to see the sausage made, in grisly detail. No surprise, it's not a pretty sight.

They're pushing past the center, to center-right, if you ask me - the center is too left for "centrist democrats". The left gets to STFU as usual.

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and-justice-for-all

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:50 PM
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7. I think that is called spin...

well more than half of the populous is for the Public Option and that would be because the people who need it out number the ones who do not.

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Clio the Leo

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Tue Aug-18-09 10:44 PM
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9. I saw a report one time......

.... in which the same company asked the question "do you support the President's heath care propsal?" and the numbers were lower .... then asked "do you support a health care plan that would do (and then listed all the goals the President has)" and the number was 10 points higher.

I'd venture to say that 75 to 80% of the general public doesn't even know what the phrase "public option" means.

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