DEMOCRATS LEARNING WRONG LESSON FROM MASSACHUSETTS?
It would appear that the Democrats might be on the verge of learning the wrong lesson from their loss in Massachusetts. Here's what the most recent poll found:
We are going to hear a lot of nonsense from the right, that this vote was against universal healthcare, but the polls simply don't back that up.HEALTH CARE BILL OPPONENTS THINK IT "DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH"
- by 3 to 2 among Obama voters who voted for Brown
- by 6 to 1 among Obama voters who stayed home
(18% of Obama supporters who voted supported Brown.)
VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORT THE PUBLIC OPTION
- 82% of Obama voters who voted for Brown
- 86% of Obama voters who stayed home
OBAMA VOTERS WANT DEMOCRATS TO BE BOLDER
- 57% of Brown voters say Obama "not delivering enough" on change he promised
- 49% to 37% among voters who stayed home
| QUESTION: 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 | OPPOSE | NOT SURE | |||||||
| ALL | 82% | 14% | 4% | ||||||
| MEN | 79% | 18% | 3% | ||||||
| WOMEN | 85% | 10% | 5% | ||||||
| DEMOCRATS | 89% | 7% | 4% | ||||||
| REPUBLICANS | 68% | 24% | 8% | ||||||
| INDEPENDENTS | 83% | 13% | 4% | ||||||
Prepare for the Republicans to do what thy always do at times like this, and argue that their views have been vindicated, when the truth is that most Americans favour a plan for universal healthcare.
And the American mainstream media will, as always, suck up on these conservative talking points:
Liberals can win elections, but they still have trouble winning the narrative. There are dozens of plausible explanations for this, but the noise machine still seems like the biggest one to me. There's simply no liberal counterpart to Drudge and Fox and Rush: a conservative commentariat that concedes nothing, pounds home its points like a jackhammer, repeats its themes relentlessly, and has the ear of the Washington mainstream press in a way that liberal commentators don't. Dionne calls their approach the "audacity of audacity," and the press seems to take it as evidence of sincerity in a way that they don't with liberal arguments.What the public actually say when polled will be deemed less important than the spin the Republicans choose to put on this.
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