Obama goes before Congress to sell health care
The gain in overall support for the plan comes entirely from Democrats. Eighty-four percent (84%) of those in the President's party now support the health care plan, up from 72% earlier in the week. Support among Republicans is unchanged while support among those not affiliated with either major party has fallen.
In other words, Obama didn't make headway with the cherished independent voters; in fact he lost more of their support.
There's also this:
If the plan passes, 28% of voters say the quality of care will get better and 46% say it will get worse. In August, the numbers were 23% better and 50% worse.
Forty-seven percent (47%) say passage of the plan will make the cost of health care go up while 23% say it will make costs go down. In August, 52% thought the plan would lead to higher costs, and only 17% thought it would achieve the stated goal of lowering costs.
That tells me that whatever gains are made are not necessarily about the value of the plan; most Americans have a pretty grim view of what it will accomplish. So what accounts for the slight gain among Obama's base?
Maybe this has something to do with it:
In considering the impact of a speech, however, it's important to remember than only about 15% of Americans watched the speech. Most learned about it from the news coverage of the past several days.
Them, again. Despite Obama's charisma, the small increase support appears to have come from reading, listening and hearing the news. Apparently the media are doing a better job of selling Obamacare than Obama himself.
1 Comment
chiguy said:
The best part of all this is its gonna cost a ton to overhaul and then the next president or the one after him or even 3 out, will be pushed by the masses to "change" again as the pendulum swings and we are gonna have to pay a ton more to switch it back or alter it. We may be jealous of other county's HC coverage but the only reason they have any of that technology is because our system of competitive capitalism and r&d was able to invent the procedures and medicines. This will all dissapear as we leave our roots for what has already been proven to fail. When will we get so moral that we cant eat animals or maybe one day plants, maybe we should start putting eachother in jail for accidently stepping on an ant. Its like we are trying to stop evolution because we think its not fair????? ya good luck to us!!!!!!!!!!!
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