Obama’s faux health care summit a bust with voters
Although there doesn’t appear to be any numbers out yet on how many actually watched President Obama’s Kabuki dance of a health care summit, it’s obvious that those who did, or as John at Powerline suggests - may have seen snippets on the news, or heard about it from their friends, were clearly impressed. Obama’s [...]
Pew Research Center: Health Care Ranks Eighth on List of Public Priorities
Andrew Kohut at Pew has released a fascinating survey on public priorities. No surprise, the economy and jobs are numbers one and two, respectively. Number three is terrorism. Where does health care rank? Eighth. It trails behind Social Security, education, Medicare, and deficit reduction.
Up until recently, Democrats have been able to dismiss polls that show the [...]
Thinking about the unthinkable, Part Three
According to Real Clear Politics, all four polls that have come out since the beginning of the weekend show Scott Brown leading Martha Coakley. The lead ranges from 3 points (ARG) to 10 points (PJM/CrossTarget). Not surprisingly, given these results, the betting money, as reflected by Intrade, now strongly favors Brown.
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Afghans: We’re OK, You’re OK
I’ve been pessimistic about Afghanistan’s future, but maybe it’s time to reconsider. Because the Afghans aren’t, according to this BBC poll. The results are striking. Afghans are much more likely than Americans to think their country is on the right track (70%, up from 40% last year). Afghans think much more [...]
Support Scott Brown
Scott Brown is the GOP candidate for the open Senate seat in Massachusetts. Today comes word that he is within shouting distance of Democrat Martha Coakley.
Coakley is a liberal Democrat of the cookie cutter variety. Even in the friendly environs of Massachusetts she can do no better on the subject of [...]
Government Medicine: Poison at the Polls
No wonder the Democrats have to bribe their own Senators and Congressmen to vote for Obamacare: all poll data indicate that the measure (whatever it is at the moment) is deeply unpopular, and the latest numbers from Nebraska suggest that anyone who votes for government medicine, representing other than a deep-blue state, is in [...]
