Was today's election mostly about health care?

[bik0]

I watched Frank Luntz on Hannity's show interview a focus group (around 25 people) of mostly Obama supporters asking those who voted for Obama and also for Brown - why the switch? There were 4 individuals in the group who switched and all cited health care as the main issue - complaining about health care legislation being "forced down their throats". Reading the article below, today's results are really no surprise...

From a Sept 2009 article in the Boston Globe...

State’s health system popular

“Three years in operation, and with 97 percent of people covered, you have a majority of support, and that is a lesson for Washington,’’ said Robert J. Blendon, a health policy professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the poll’s co-director.

The poll found that 79 percent of those surveyed wanted the law to continue, though a majority said there should be some changes, with cost reductions cited as the single most important change that needs to be made.

Only 11 percent of state residents favored repealing the law, similar to last year’s finding.

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/09/28/support_for_mass_health_insurance_overhaul_drops_but_is_still_strong/

[timeforpeace]

1. Only from the standpoint that it's been all healthcare at the exclusion of everything else.

[benlurkin]

2. Scott Brown "41"

That's what he ran on and he won. I say it was about healthcare and the pols in DC ignoring us when we were screaming for a public option.