Washington Post: 52% support public option; 46% oppose it (new poll)

Becky72

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:27 PM
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Washington Post: 52% support public option; 46% oppose it (new poll)

Aug. 21, 2009:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082004305.html?sid=ST2009082100003

In the survey, 52 percent of Americans said they favor the government's creation of a new health insurance plan to compete with private insurers, while 46 percent are opposed. That is a big shift from late June, when 62 percent backed the notion and 33 percent opposed it.

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scheming daemons

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:32 PM
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1. Ironically, that's the exact same percentage that the election was decided by....

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Colobo

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:33 PM
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2. We are still the majority.

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ProSense

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:33 PM
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3. A poll from a paper whose editorial called for ditching the public option?

WaPo = FAIL

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Cha

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:43 PM
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4. And this poll tells quite a different

story.

New Poll: 77 Percent Support "Choice" Of Public Option

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html

More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.

A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in June.

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To ensure that its respondent pool was composed of people from similar demographics and political mindsets, SurveyUSA asked respondents a question pulled directly from NBC's August survey. The results were nearly identical.
Yes we did!

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NYC_SKP

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:44 PM
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5. Right, Survey USA indicated 77% . nt

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Cha

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:52 PM
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6. Which sounds more accurate than a

wapo(can't be trusted)poll.

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NYC_SKP

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Thu Aug-20-09 11:54 PM
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7. 58% Extremely Important + 19% Quite Important that the plan has a Public Option= 77%

Question:

In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5ba17aa2-f1b9-4445-a6b8-62b9d1ba8693

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Cha

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:00 AM
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8. Your dog is

so cute.

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NYC_SKP

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:15 AM
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9. pound puppy!

and dangerous! :P

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Cha

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:20 PM
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10. I remember that car and pup

during the campaign! Thanks for bringing it up again..Freakin' adorably patriotic~:patriot::loveya:

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yodermon

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Fri Aug-21-09 01:12 PM
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11. couldn't find a link to the raw poll questions, I wonder how it was worded.

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