Outside a town hall meeting on health care reform in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Image from Darren McCollester/Getty Images.)
A new Quinnipiac Poll is out (with Ohio Senate numbers), and Ohioans — in our role as, well, basically, representative of all of the country — don’t buy the GOP’s health care attacks. A full majority — 50 percent — of Ohioans think the Republicans just want to see Obama’s health care plans fail:
“But the good news for the President is that by a 49 – 28 percent margin voters say they trust him more than congressional Republicans to handle health care. And voters say 50 – 33 percent that congressional Republicans are more interested in seeing Obama fail than in playing a constructive role in health care reform.”
Ohio voters support 57 – 35 percent the idea of giving American consumers the option of buying health insurance from a government-run plan. But by a much larger 68 – 24 percent margin, voters don’t believe the President will be able to keep his promise to pass a health care overhaul that does not add to the federal budget deficit.
So, I think it’s high time Sen. Voinovich get to the spot on this bill where Ohioans are and support the public option.
And, if you don’t mind humor that is only funny so long as it doesn’t make you cry, start of your morning with this fantastic video (care of @TheFix).
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Chris Geidner is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., who writes at Law Dork, is the senior political writer at Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications. An extended biography can be found
Are you a moron? You completely misconstrue the poll’s results. Quinnipiac’s OWN SYNTHESIS of THEIR OWN POLL said: “The pattern is similar: strong Democratic support and Republican opposition, with independent voters tipping negative.”
If independents are “tipping negative,” why would Sen. Voinovich need to support the government-run option. And, I suspect, if people were asked if they wanted a government-run option that would ultimately put other insurance companies out of business, the answer would be NOOOO.
No, I don’t think I am a moron. But, what I do think is that Quinnipiac can spin its poll as it wants. I’ll look at the numbers.
Anti-Geidner, that is an interesting username. By being Anti-G, does that mean you’ve imposed yourself as his opposite? You’re not. The law dork is correct. He is reflecting the numbers.
If you’re so affected by poll numbers you might consider having some simple excitement, and tune out of the cable infotainment. Clearly, you can’t handle it, and appear angry, sexless, loveless, and constipated.
Note below: the Dispatch disagrees with the Geidner too.
Unlike the Geidner, the Anti-Geidner does not have a belly.
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/16/copy/apoll.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
The Dispatch disagrees with the Geidner too.