* Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?
Favor 82%
Oppose 14%
Not Sure 4%http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010010320/poll-shouts-message-massachusetts-voters-were-sendingThe numbers in the Research 2000 exit poll released Wednesday by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America speak for themselves: The Massachusetts election was not a call to go back to conservatism. It was, as Robert Borosage on our site said earlier today and as such commentators as Katrina vanden Heuvel are saying, a call for Democrats to be bolder, more audacious and unapologetic in pursuing the populist reforms the public thought it was going to get after the 2008 elections.
Maybe the Democratic Party Leadership should
listen to the people instead of trying to
Ram Through a
Republican Health Care Plan dictated by Joe Lieberman and Olympia Snow?