What percentage of respondents said that they actually know what is in the HCR bill?

""Thanks to the Obama administration's welcome reversal, the new government sworn into office next January can expect the full support of the United States and I hope the entire international community," said DeMint."

Obama admin respecting upcoming elections is a "reversal"?

More like they refused to play ball with DeMented's coup d'etat friends.

The CNN poll is useless. It is one of the most atrociously thought-out questions I have ever seen.

The question:
"As you may know, several health care bills have been passed by committees in the U.S. House and
Senate and they can be brought before Congress for debate and a final vote at any time. Which of
the following do you think Congress should do:
* Continue working on those bills this fall and make relatively minor changes before passing final legislation
* Continue working on those bills this fall but pass final legislation only if major changes are made
* Start work on entirely new bills that would not be ready until some time next year
* Stop working on any bills that would change the country's health care system
* Other
* No opinion"

"Those bills" means absolutely nothing; at the very least there's six Democratic bills, not to mention the Republican bill.

By phrasing it as "those bills" rather than asking about specific bills, all they're getting is a question about whether or not people think there needs to be reform. And the answer they got is that 84% of the public thinks reform is needed. The breakdown of that 84% is not meaningful because the question is incredibly ambiguous.

I doubt even 1% of the country's citizens have actually read any of the bills, even the short and useless Republican one.

Acknowledging that most of the country's citizens likely have no idea what's in the bills, it would have been ideal that, if they said they thought reform was necessary that they then be asked questions about specific provisions, such as:
* Single payer
* Public insurance option
* Opt-out provision for the public option
* Opt-in provision for the public option
* Co-ops
* Triggers
* Individual mandates
* Company mandates for large/medium size businesses
* Tortreform
* Government coverage of abortions
* How to pay for it: Taxing "cadillac" plans, taxing the rich, or other methods

If they asked those questions, we'd have a much better understanding of what the public really thinks about the bills.

All this poll is is meaningless sensationalist journalism on the part of CNN. The utter lack of professionalism in this poll is astounding.

"He's trying to find candidates who can win. I'm trying to find people who can help me change the Senate," said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). "To think we can grow the party by picking people who are more liberal and don't share our core values doesn't make any sense."

Translation: "There is only one political spectrum, and that is the liberal-Republican spectrum. Although to be honest, it isn't really a spectrum; it's a border. You're either inside the border or outside of it. If you're outside the border, then you don't share our "core values", meaning you hate America and want to destroy it. There is no such thing as a variety of positions or opinions on an issue, because every issue is really just a way for us to declare our tribal solidarity by echoing talking points. We don't need a big tent, because our positions are pre-chewed for us by Frank Luntz, and you're either on-board or you're not."

Although to be honest, it isn't really a spectrum; it's a border. You're either inside the border or outside of it.

Sounds like Jack Byrnes'

Circle of Trust.