Remember the old album title that suggested that a large number of Elvis fans couldn't be wrong? The same can be said in this latest CNN poll that shows a clear majority favoring a public option.
This is the third poll that shows favoritism of a strong public option despite the millions of dollars right-wing groups and insurance companies have spent trying to defeat it.
Reports Jed in Daily Kos:
CNN poll by Opinion Research, 1,010 adults, 8/28-31, +/- 3 pts (pdf):Now thinking specifically about the health insurance plans available to most Americans, would you favor or oppose creating a public health insurance option administered by the federal government that would compete with plans offered by private health insurance companies?
Favor - 55%
Oppose - 41%
No opinion - 4%
Note that the public option receives a wide margin of support even though the question uses the word "administer," which could be confusing to some who think it means the government would actually be administering the health care, instead of acting as a insurer like Medicare.
Still, despite the wording, this poll shows that there is strong support for the public option, even after a long summer of siege warfare by teabaggers against doing any reform at all.
The natural reaction to this should be to plow forward, especially given that 4 of the 5 committees with jurisdiction have a public option in their health care plan.
The question is whether the folks at the Obama Administration and in Congress get the point.
The teabaggers, birthers, deathers, and the rest of the assorted liars who have spread disinformation and lies about healthcare care reform may feel they have won (with support of mainstream media members too lazy to look beyond the noise of these nuts), but clearly on the very public option they hate, they DON'T represent the majority of the American people.
Big question: Will the rest of the media report this poll with the same (if not more) prominence than they have given the anti-reform liars?
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