So, since the analysis claims support went down because of the mis-information, this gives Democrats a chance and the few Republicans that might support this reform, to coordinate themselves and crush the lies with truth in September along with AARP and other organizations that have really began to mobilize themselves.

Um, Brian, no offense but what's the margin of error on these "surveys"? My guess would be that in most of these the change you're pointing out is within those margins, and thus not significant enough to write a piece about.
Secondly, while I never worked in opinion research I did work in survey research for 15 years and it was ALWAYS harder to reach people to gather data during July and August. While the pollsters won't admit it because it's bad for their business, personally I don't trust survey results during this time of the year as much as I would those from others.
Maybe this is all wishful thinking on my part, but I wanted to put it out there.

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This places Health Care Reform in a decidedly different place than when Bush tried to push out Social Security privitization. The numbers sank like a rock on that pretty quickly, despitre twon halls and a massive push by the White House.

we have not even had a massive push by the White House yet. Not really.

and all the teabggers did was soften support a little...in exchange for a stunning showcasing of their enormous liabilities and idiocy. I'll take that tradeoff.

I think the rope-a-dope is on. Get ready for round 2.

This is an essential point. Here we have an issue where the public is largely divided or ambivalent, but likely to move depending on how the question is asked. This makes matters of political survival accute for Democrats in competitive districts in a different way than if, as you point out with Bush and Social Security, the more we talk about it the worse it gets.

Plus we have the benefit of getting to disprove the lies by actually passing the bill, whereas Bush was campaigning for a policy he claimed did not equal privatization.

September is where the action is.

What we have here is a great case for giving the public option a name, since it seems to have turned into political poison, but few in the public know what the phrase means.

Tea-Bagger Daily Schedule:
9 a.m. – Wake up

9:15 a.m. – Watch Fox News segment on why Obama is a Socialist and nod in agreement

9:30 a.m. – Cash government unemployment check

10 a.m. – Listen to Limbaugh on radio and giggle, “you tell ‘em Rush!”

10:30 a.m. – Go to doctor paid for by Medicare
11 a.m. – Read email claiming Obama was born in Kenya, forward it to friends and demand to personally see his birth certificate

11:15 a.m. – Print email of talking points against public option written by insurance company which they think comes from “average Americans” like them

11:30 – Paint offensive sign criticizing Obama and Nancy Pelosi

Noon – buy more bullets for hand gun at Wal-Mart, pick up prescription medication for free paid by Medicare

1 p.m. – Picket outside Town Hall meeting, accuse all opponents of being Communists

2 p.m. – Yell inside Town Hall meeting “I want my country back!’

3 p.m. – Try to get interviewed by local Fox affiliate who organized this “grass roots” protest

3:30 p.m. – Listen to Sean Hannity on the radio and smirk, “You tell ‘em Sean!”

4 p.m. – Go online and sign up for extension of unemployment benefits, claim to be looking for jobs

5 p.m. – Watch O’Reilly on Fox News and mutter, “This country is going to hell.”

traitorjoe,

That's pretty good!

Well if you squish your baseline to one month (July-Aug)maybe you can make yourself feel better, but if you push back into May and June it gets pretty ugly. The June 18 ABC is at 53-39. The June 27 Rasmussen is at 50-45. The June 15 NC-WSJ on Democrats was at 33-32 with 30 undecided. Virtually all the undecideds went against.

This is just whistling past the graveyard

I don't think even us Democrats are smart enough to stick with the healthcare reform needed to help the current situation.

Our Democratic leaders are pandering to the helpless and those whose hearts always bleed for the helpless.

I think the problem is much simpler. I think the Medicare reimbursement rate (and the medicare tax) needs to go up. Medicare recipients whose income/wealth combination is higher than median also need to keep paying into the plan, very progressively in my view. Why does a wealthy old person get free healthcare while my employer shells up over $13K a year for my coverage and I hardly ever make a claim? It's stupid and unfair, period.

Over about 5 years Medicare should be balanced to be a fully funded program (plus a couple of percent for future recessions) with no cost shifting to other populations. Life should not be a casino, especially one where the wealthiest age group (as a whole) gets to gamble with the odds in their favor and without having to ante.

My employer uses my money to place my bet (I can't opt out)that I will get really really sick while I am covered. After having private health insurance purchased for me for 25 years, there is already about zero chance I will ever be sick enough to rack up healthcare bills anywhere near what has been paid in premiums over decades, and a very reasonable chance that a costly illness will occur and I will be deemed to have low eligibility for coverage, subsequently bankrupting me.

Why not tax everyone to raise enough money for their health insurance - legislate what the minimum plan will cover, and if they don't use the money to buy their own health insurance simply keep their money and send it out to the states per capita as medicaid money. There see, no ones making you buy insurance, you just get charged the same whether you have it or not.

What's missing in the discussion is the absolute fact that the cost for healthcare decisions made between your doctor, yourself (and even the government) will continue to spiral out of control if there are so many people who simply have no personal stake in keeping costs down.