Poll: Americans want to ‘give the new health-care law a chance’

[babylonsister]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/05/speaking_of_health-care_reform.html


Poll: Americans want to ‘give the new health-care law a chance’
Ezra Klein



Speaking of health-care reform, David Weigel catches an interesting health-care question in the new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll. It asks, "would you be more likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who says we should give the new health care law a chance to work and make changes as needed, or a candidate for Congress who says we should repeal the new health care law entirely and start over?"

The answer? Fifty-five percent say we should give the bill a chance. Forty-two percent say we should start over.

When health care passed, I, along with many other people, predicted that it would become more popular in the months after its passage. That prediction hasn't held up. But at the same time, "implement and modify" has routinely hammered "repeal and replace" in the polls. It's not so much that the bill got more popular as that the country seems to have decided that having come this far, we might as well give it a chance.

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And here's the gop's plan 'to win' in November:


http://www.rollcall.com/news/46197-1.html?mostemailed=1


Senate GOP Launching New Campaign Against Health Care Law

[ShortnFiery]

1. What? Another smattering of manipulated polling data? Not this American ...

Count me out of any skewed methodology sponsored by ... The Government. :crazy:

I believe none of this "polling data" at face value.

[Jennicut]

2. Not so surprising. No Grandmas have gone to the death panels yet, have they?

[babylonsister]

3. I just love the gop's plan; are they tone deaf, or is that all they got?

The latter, I'm sure. I hope their 'plan' fails miserably.

[DrToast]

5. They were at their strongest during the health care debate

It's not surprising they still want to talk about that. It sure beats talking about the hundreds of thousands of jobs being created each month.

But I think people have moved on and this poll seems to suggest that.

[Clio the Leo]

4. I have to admit I was surprised to hear that one...

... pleasantly surprised.

[Phx_Dem]

6. There goes another election strategy .

:rofl: