Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation poll: Ryan plan unpopular, but vouchers are hated

[ProSense]

Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation poll: Ryan plan unpopular, but vouchers are hated

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Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 8/16-19. Registered voters. MoE ±3.1% (no trendlines):

Q: Do you support or oppose Paul Ryan's proposal for reforming Medicare?

Support 36%
Oppose 45%
Not sure 18%

Q: Do you believe traditional Medicare insurance for seniors should be replaced with vouchers to allow the elderly to buy private insurance if they want health care coverage, or not?

Traditional Medicare insurance for seniors should be replaced with vouchers 19%
It should not 63%
Not sure 18%

Among self-identified moderates, 60 percent say they oppose Paul Ryan's proposal, but a whopping 72 percent are opposed to a voucherized plan. In a sadly amusing twist, conservatives support the proposal when it's called the Paul Ryan proposal by 61 percent, but only 28 percent support the actual proposal, that Medicare should be replaced by vouchers. A plurality—44 percent—don't like the idea of vouchers at all, somehow magically erasing Paul Ryan's name from it in their heads.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/21/1122274/-Daily-Kos-SEIU-State-of-the-Nation-poll-Ryan-plan-unpopular-but-vouchers-are-hated

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Sorry, but I don't trust an SEIU-sponsored poll

any more that I'd trust one released by Americans fo Prosperity.


It may very well be correct, but I personally know of liberal political organizations releasing bogus polling results in order to manipulate their "base."

[ProSense]

3. It's correct, and in line with other polls. n/t

[BlueStreak]

2. "conservative" = "low information voter"

But what makes it worse is that conservatives are far more opinionated than the average person.

Strong opinions + low information = a very bad combination

[EC]

4. Then why aren't they making the point

by asking the question "Do you support Ryan's plan to voucherize Medicare?" instead of playing games with the two questions? Why continue to let them think these are two completely different questions? I'll bet repubs think that the voucher ? is about the Dem plan for Medicare.