(December 13, 2010 at 5:12 pm)Mishka Wrote:(December 13, 2010 at 3:35 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:(December 13, 2010 at 3:01 pm)Mishka Wrote: You need to keep better informed. This poll is from today, not the old polls DOA posted.
Wow. You managed to actually produce one poll... and from Rasmussen, no less.
You see, the reason I took just about every poll I could find in a google search is because I didn't want to get called on for using one poll because those are notorious for being able to support a one-sided claim. Since I copy-pasted links to ten seporate polls, I can mark an overall trend that's much harder to argue against.
You found one recent poll. Some of mine are as recent as a mere few months ago, during the fevered pitch of the last congressional election, in which the congresspeople have yet to take office.
Unless you have something more substantive, like maybe four more polls concluding the same trend from seporate sources, I might find the claim to have credibility.
At best, you have proven that a slim majority of Americans don't approve of the healthcare law... for now. Not that it really changes anything.
At best a poll is only as good at the time it was taken. Hence the obsolescence of your polls. Until you can show that Rasmussen produces incorrect or out of the mainstream results, your attempt to quantify 60% of Americans as a thin majority is laughable.
What do you call the 34% that still are for it? A close to majority number? Really? You probably think that losing 63 seats in the house was a flesh wound to the Dem party too?
I think the health care bill is bad legislation because I'm for the public option. Your survey doesn't indicate WHY people don't like the bill. Further, more and more poll results are being called into question because you have the cell phone vs. land line. Younger adults are less likely to have a land line, so the skew is towards older Americans in the polling data. Unless you can demonstrate the demographic polled and WHY people are opposed you have nothing. The majority of Americans favored a public option and as a result don't like the health care bill.
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