You mean the poll LIED? Rasmussen, Media Misrepresent Obama Health Care Promise

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Little in-joke hat-tip to "Return of the Living Dead" fans in my thread title.

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Rasmussen, Media Misrepresent Obama Health Care Promise



http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/rasmussen-media-misrepresent-obama-health-care-promise

On Monday, The Hill reported on a new Rasmussen poll under the provocative title, "Nearly half of voters don't believe key healthcare promise by Obama." That supposed pledge, as The Hill described it, was that "the law would not require individuals to change their coverage." But absent from this incendiary meme was the real guarantee President Obama repeatedly made that "what I'm saying is the government is not going to make you change plans under health reform." Sadly, as the accelerating erosion of workplace health care coverage shows, your employer is another matter.

Rasmussen (whose polls The Hill noted in passing "are widely believed to trend to the right") found:

Among voters with health care insurance, 45% believe the new law will force them to change coverage, with 26% who say it is Very Likely. Forty-six percent (46%) think it is unlikely that they will have to change their coverage, including 19% say that's Not At All Likely to happen.

But throughout the explosive health care debate in 2009, Obama made clear time and again that when he said, "nobody is talking about taking that away from you," the President was referring to the government. His was an obvious - and understandable - effort to debunk a Republican talking point dating back to the demise of the Clinton health care debacle.

For example, at a June 23, 2009 press conference, President Obama left no doubt about the meaning of his message:

"When I say if you have your plan and you like it, ... or you have a doctor and you like your doctor, that you don't have to change plans, what I'm saying is the government is not going to make you change plans under health reform."

[gratuitous]

1. And, as usually happens

Nobody knows where the false information came from, or why so many people believe the lie to be true. All this misinformation circulating around these heavily-covered issues, and nobody can say where it all comes from or how it gets so widely disseminated. It's a Festivus mystery!

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Why hasn't the president taken over the airwaves with panels

of insurance reform experts who will explain the plan in plain terms to the masses?We all need to know the good things and changes that this law will assure.

[subterranean]

3. The information is not hard to find for those who care to find it.

Even if the president did "take over the airwaves" for one night, what could he say that he hasn't already said dozens of times? And would it make any difference? Some people prefer to believe rumors, viral e-mails and Fox News rather than true facts. It didn't help that many insurance companies jacked up rates last year and blamed it on health care reform.

[The Wielding Truth]

5. I'm talking all the airwaves for as many nights as it takes to get through.

[old mark]

4. K&R. The GOP does not care about truth, so long as they get votes, money and power....nt