Ho-ly shit.

LOLz!

Yup.

Too stupid collectively to be trusted with anything sharper than a sponge.

No it is not a logical impossibility. Keeping new political initiatives from changing Medicare is a perfectly sensible view.
Perhaps you folks pretending to be smart should try some understanding. But no, and that is why you are losing the battle. But hey, keep up the good work.

Go down to the cross tabs and look at Conservative/Moderate/Liberal. While the Conservative number (59%) is jokeworthy, the numbers for Moderates and Liberals isn't encouraging and means that the joke is on the country in general rather than just conservatives. I'd be far more comfortable if those numbers was 5% for Liberals and 15% for Moderates.

John

30 years of Republican, conservative rule shorting schools, letting Texas religious wackos choose the country's textbooks, keeping government and civics classes at a level of 'America is always right' and forcing schools to teach to standardized tests instead of encouraging critical thinking has given us the United States of Dumb as a Bag of Hammers.

It's not really a fair question since the right answer "medicare is already a government program" isn't an option. Lots of people who think Medicare should be maintained as-is will answer "yes" because they give the questioner the benefit of the doubt.

Can't "the profound levels of ignorance" relative to the prevailing health insurance reform proposal be attributable to the fact that the media, both "new" and traditional, have, except very rarely, reported the content of the proposed legislation?

How much has been published here at TPM relative to the content of the legislation? None that I recall. Likewise with almost all other outlets.

If one wishes to make money in a "news" deliver business one must ultimately descend to appealing to the lowest common denominator to maximize its reader or viewership.

"Stupid is a pre-existing condition" -Bill Maher on last night's Real Time...thinking he may be on to something.

The Republicans are so far out of the loop and their rear ends bought and paid for long ago by corporations that they cannot be trusted to work for anybody except their cronies and sponsors. They might as well be like the Indycar drivers: walk around in one piece sansabelts with all the corporate sponsor logos sewn on. That way we would all know who owns their teabagging brains.

Trick question, my ass! 62% of Republicans got it wrong vs 24% of Democrats (not a good sign in itself). These people have been programmed to accept nonsense as fact and to mistrust the government on virtually all matters, except, or course when it comes to imposing their own worldview upon others.