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WaPo Poll: 52% Still Support Public Option

By Big Tent Democrat

After months of attacks from the Right and perhaps the most inept political performance by a White House in recent memory, the public option still garners majority support in the country, according to a WaPo poll (a SUSA poll has approval at 77%, proving yet again that wording is everything in polling):

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.

A President with a 57% approval rating (according to the WaPo poll) compared to a 21% approval rate for Congressional Republicans, should be able to enact a policy he says he favors and which is supported by 52% of the electorate. If he can't, that means he really is not in favor of it or he is too incompetent politically to get it done.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).