Ahem:
Voters who say the new health reform law was too conservative outnumber by 2 to 1 those supporting repeal, according to a poll released Saturday.
About 40 percent of respondents said the law was too timid in overhauling the nation’s healthcare system, while 20 percent said they’d like to see it scrapped, according to the survey, commissioned by The Associated Press (AP).
Republicans, who voted unanimously against the health reforms, have molded their campaign message around the idea that opposition to the law comes overwhelmingly from voters who consider it an intrusion on time-honored liberties.
“When you said you didn’t want a government takeover of health care, we heard you,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Saturday during the Republican’s weekly radio address.
But the poll suggests dissatisfaction with the new law is much more nuanced than that, with more voters indicating frustration that the Democrats didn’t go further.
The people most responsible for watering down the health care bill probably are in denial about this. Maybe they ought to have listened to the liberals for once.
Mason-Dixon is out with the first mainstream Arkansas Senate poll in several weeks, and things are still looking bad for Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Republican nominee John Boozman finds himself way out in front, topping Lincoln 51%-34%, with independent Trevor Drown taking in 3% and Green Party candidate John Gray pulling in 1%.
Mrs. Blanche ‘I was for the public option before I was against it’ Lincoln is barely pulling a third of the votes in her home state. That’s because conservatives are mad that she voted for the bill, while liberals are mad that she refused to support a stronger bill.
There is no “third way” in a truly polarized electorate?
Only yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
It takes a poll to figure this out? Are there any Dem incumbents in trouble because they stood up for a stronger bill? How obvious does it have to get for the Dem dinosaurs to see what’s right in front of them?
Anyway, good riddance to Lincoln. Maybe her one contribution to anything will be as an object lesson on what being a craven corporate suckup gets you.
Maybe her one contribution to anything will be as an object lesson on what being a craven corporate suckup gets you.
We’ll see, but I doubt it. It will take a lot more for them to wake the hell up.
It takes a poll because too many Congressional staffs listened to the DC media narrative and because “death panel” August spooked a lot of moderate and conservative Democrats (and not just Blue Dogs). And then there’s Jared Polis.
I’m sure her next job will pay much better.
Just more evidence that we need to work harder on throwing most of the bums out until they represent all the people, not just the rich. So Boo, who is going to be Maximus(before Marcus Aurelius was killed)?
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that adopting more of the DFH domestic agenda (health care reform with public option, bankruptcy reform/mortgage cramdown, larger stimulus (focused on state budgets and job creation), passing the Obama tax cut on the first $250,000 of income, to name a few) would have been both good policy and good politics for congressional Democrats.
Unemployment would be lower, the economy would be growing faster, their base would be happier, and their opposition would be more frustrated. Dems would probably still lose a bunch of seats in November, but they’d be in better shape overall than they are now.
Not to jump too far ahead, but I’ll be interested to see what happens to the Blue Dogs if Republicans retake the House. Will they have more power because they were “right” that Obama did too much too fast, or will they lose power because so many of them lose their seats?
Americans Vastly Underestimate Wealth Inequality, Support ‘More Equal Distribution Of Wealth’: Study
I would have loved to have read the article but a video popped up blocking the article and I couldn’t turn it off. Maybe it was republished someplace else?
I know that the sample size is too small, but I would love to see the breakdown by Congressional District of that 40% who thought it was too conservative.
And of the remaining 40% who thought it was just right or are undecided.
I doubt that it’s randomly distributed over the Congressional Districts.
Stupid is a Democrat telling a pollster they are opposed to the health care reform law KNOWING DAMN WELL that the MSM is not going to dissect those numbers and only report the total opposition and KNOWING DAMN WELL that it will only give Republicans ammunition. Leaving the most vulnerable Americans as prey for these incoming barbarians. THAT’S DAMN STUPID! But what’s new?