Ahem:
Voters who say the new health reform law was too conservative outnumber by 2 to 1 those supporting repeal, according to a poll released Saturday.
About 40 percent of respondents said the law was too timid in overhauling the nation’s healthcare system, while 20 percent said they’d like to see it scrapped, according to the survey, commissioned by The Associated Press (AP).
Republicans, who voted unanimously against the health reforms, have molded their campaign message around the idea that opposition to the law comes overwhelmingly from voters who consider it an intrusion on time-honored liberties.
“When you said you didn’t want a government takeover of health care, we heard you,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Saturday during the Republican’s weekly radio address.
But the poll suggests dissatisfaction with the new law is much more nuanced than that, with more voters indicating frustration that the Democrats didn’t go further.
The people most responsible for watering down the health care bill probably are in denial about this. Maybe they ought to have listened to the liberals for once.
Mason-Dixon is out with the first mainstream Arkansas Senate poll in several weeks, and things are still looking bad for Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Republican nominee John Boozman finds himself way out in front, topping Lincoln 51%-34%, with independent Trevor Drown taking in 3% and Green Party candidate John Gray pulling in 1%.
Mrs. Blanche ‘I was for the public option before I was against it’ Lincoln is barely pulling a third of the votes in her home state. That’s because conservatives are mad that she voted for the bill, while liberals are mad that she refused to support a stronger bill.