US: National Survey (Ipsos 8/27-31)
Emily Swanson | September 2, 2009
Ipsos / McClatchy
8/27-31/09; 1,057 adults. 3% margin of error
499 Democrats, 4.4% margin of error
401 Republicans, 4.9% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
(Ipsos: Health Care release, toplines; political tracker release, toplines)
National
State of the Country
40% Right direction, 54% Wrong track (chart)
Obama Job Approval
56% Approve, 40% Disapprove (chart)
Democrats: 88 /10 (chart)
Independents: 54 / 37 (chart)
Republicans: 18 / 78 (chart)
2010 House National Ballot
42% Democrat, 34% Republican (chart)
As of right now, do you favor or oppose the healthcare reform proposals presently being discussed?
40% Favor, 45% Oppose (chart)
Do you favor or oppose...
Legislation to permit the creation of insurance co-operatives
NOT run by the government
54% Favor, 36% Oppose
Creation of a public entity to directly compete with existing
health insurance companies
49% Favor, 41% Oppose
Party ID
34% Democrat, 22% Republican, 45% independent (chart)
By Emily Swanson | September 2, 2009 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)
Comments
I've been a long time Republican, but frankly today I'm ashamed to be a member of the party of 'NO'.
This portends to be a 'not invented here' issue. ie. if we did not invent it or present it, then we are against it.
Republicans - get a life. wake up to the music. If you had your way you would vote in a pot of luke-warm stale coffe and ask everyone to drink it.
Obama was voted in because the American public at large wants change from the idiotic government of the Bush administration. Now that you see what change means - everyone wants to rethink their votes.
Please remember what you voted for. If that's not what you wanted, then what did you think 'change' was going to entail?
Change is never easy, but change is what you voted in versus more of the same.
Stop complaining.
Go with the flow. That seemed pretty simple when GW Bush asked everyone to kill a sitting country president.
George Washington once said; "Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party generally."
Today we're seeing how true that remark is.
I have renounced all "party" affiliation because in America today, neither is interested in anything more than controlling the "POWER" of the federal government, which has no authority at all to "create" a healthcare or health insurance program of ANY nature, since NEITHER is ever mentioned in our constitution.
I reject the entire argument for Socialism, and that's precisely what todays "healthcare" arguments are all about, not whether or not to embrace it, merely to what DEGREE we should embrace it!
The federal government needs to simply shut up and sit down, then go home and plow their own fields...
Crazy party ID on this one...
Posted on September 2, 2009 12:20 PM