NYT/CBS POLL: 66%/27% support public option. 65%/32% support raising taxes on wealthy for reforms.

[jefferson_dem]

:thumbsup:

http://documents.nytimes.com/new-york-times-cbs-news-poll-health-care-overhaul#p=13

[NYC Democrat]

1. thats not good support for the public option is down by around 15% since the last poll.

[Teaser]

2. it's good support

.

[4lbs]

3. How is going from 72% to 66% meaning it's down 15%?

A poll at the beginning of July had 72% supporting a public option.

We have 66% now.

Where's the 15% drop again?

[NYC Democrat]

6. not in this poll but a few other polls were showing the public option with 80% support a month ago.

[jefferson_dem]

8. Ugh...

I don't recall ever seeing support as high as 80%. Whatever the case, it's a bad idea to compare across polls from different organizations due to question wording, sampling techniques, screens, etc.

[4lbs]

17. Uh no. Those polls had 81% of the public wanting health care reform and 72% wanting a public option

However, I have no idea what the 9% difference that wanted health care reform but didn't want a public option were thinking of though, unless it was single-payer.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. I thought the previous polls were about single payer.

Public option is not the same thing.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Not sure what you're looking at. This is +2 from the last poll two weeks ago.

:shrug:

[Drunken Irishman]

7. People don't know how to read polls.

Often they misread the questions or compare two different polls.

[jefferson_dem]

9. Or try to intentionally mislead?

Hmmmm?

[CakeGrrl]

10. But the Blue Dogs are saying the public WANTS them to slow things down!

How can this BE?

:evilgrin:

[ellie]

12. Because they are a bunch of liars?

[BlooInBloo]

11. Aahhh! NOW I understand better why Tweety was slash and burning today.

[BlueIdaho]

14. Yeah

Tweety, Fuck Todd, The Schooooster, and the pack of jackals all lack the honesty to report a range of polling data on the issues of the day. Everybody's busy trying to get into the right cocktail parties instead of informing America.

What a bunch of light weights.

[Uzybone]

13. how far down are these numbers buried?

You'd think polls about actual policy would be what leads the news.

[Becky72]

15. Harris Poll released today: A majority supports public option

This poll finds that a modest 52% to 30% majority supports such a plan, and that
the arguments in favor of it tend to generate more support than those against it.

pdf: http://harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/pubs/Harris_Poll_2009_07_29.pdf

[FreakinDJ]

16. 70% support Getting Rid of BlueDog Dems

I'm sending Feinstein an email telling her I will work to have her unseated if the Public Option is not made available to all Americans

[lurky]

18. Two-to-one in favor.

With the 30% being the same GOP dead-enders who think Sarah Palin is a foreign-policy expert.

All the obstructionists should take note of this.

[FrenchieCat]

19. Will CBS tout its own poll,

or won't they?

That is the question.

[natrat]

20. the public option is now bs, from 140 million people down to 10

[TheKentuckian]

21. Seeing as our side has been losing for 70 years or so on this with almost no traction

I'm inclined to feel okay with getting a foot in the door.

[LaPera]

22. I'm sure it's in the mid 70 percent...I saw a poll less tha a week ago at 76% - We are being played

by the corporate media.....Corporate media, corporate banks, corporate insurance, corporate oil, all republicans corporates...They are all the same stockholders & CEO's....it's all about profits & supporting the status quo....They are all making profits off the American workers & middle class.

[underpants]

23. WOW -watching the "news" channels you would never think that

Virus hit our computer at home so I have been cut off from DU/internet for most of two weeks

Watching Joe in the morning you would think that Obama is done for in all accounts, might as well resign. Good to see that my well trained BS detector still works but I have to say their pablum is effective...I was forced to think that the public option was not only going to be bought off my the insurance companies but that there was no support for it.

[MadBadger]

24. THe approval numbers make me think that this poll is an outlier

His approval numbers are 58% and 30% disapproval, which are both improvements over the last poll. But Gallup, NBC/WSJ have both shown his approval rating much lower and his disapproval rating much higher.

Id have to question all numbers in this poll.