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Do Liberals really think that if they keep saying that the OVERWHELMING majority want a public option that it?
will become the truth?? How delusional are they , do they really believe this or is it just the talking point?
23 Answers
- consrgreatLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It is the Josef Goebbels politics...say a big lie often enough and it may be believed...Here are the FACTS and Polls....Sorry libs once again, as usual, you LOSE
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The last great intellectual in the GOP, William F. Buckley, died February 27, 2008. The torch of reasoned conservatism was obviously not passed to you and the other right-wing geniuses of Yahoo. .
- Anonymous1 decade ago
In politics, anything over 50% is an overwhelming majority. Bush felt he had a mandate from the American people and he certainly never won by what anyone not in politics would consider an overwhelming majority.
- delina_mLv 61 decade ago
The public option IS already becoming truth...
77% support public option
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-...
GOP Poll: Yes, People Want a Public Option
http://washingtonindependent.com/48140/gop-poll-ye...
Most polls show that a majority of Americans want a health care overhaul to include a public option — a government insurance program that competes with private insurers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...
Attn. Senate: Most Americans Want a Public Option
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200910...
Because people want it
Consgreat: Thanks for posting the link with the truth, from it:
"Polling on the health care topic by many firms has created some confusion. In particular, polls on the “public option” show a wide variety of results. A recent poll in The Washington Post found that 57% support a government-run health insurance company to compete with private insurers, but Rasmussen Reports polling shows that support is very soft. In fact, people are strongly opposed to a public option if they think it could lead employers to drop the existing coverage they provide employees. The fact that results are so subject to change based upon minor differences in question wording suggests that voters do not have firm opinions on the public option.
Virtually all polling shows a plurality or majority opposed to the current plan in Congress. The poll in The Washington Post found just 45% support for the congressional plan among all adults. Additionally, support for the current plan has remained stable suggesting that PUBLIC OPTION IS FIRMLY STABLISHED AT THIS TIME. "
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- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Yes they do. They have discovered, and it is true, that if you repeat something often enough people will think it is fact..
So the majority that voted Democrat in Nov may want a public option? So Obama got 54% of the vote so about 27% would be a majority. Do people think we should destroy our health-care system because 27% voted for it?..
- Anonymous1 decade ago
When the democrats say overwhelming majority, it is not in Reference to the Citizens of this Country, it is 20 or so socialist liberal communist flakes standing around Madam Ho Pelosi and her pimp Harry reid.
- 1 decade ago
I don't know what liberals think, but I do wish that people would become educated on bills such as this one.,for the worst of all tyrannies are those of which are hidden under the illusion of good intentions.
When you force people to buy into a service or product(health insurance) through fear of fines or imprisonment it is fascism surely even liberals are aware of that. Not to mention that it is also corporate welfare.
HMO's was and is a government program that was instituted in 1973 they where to bring down the cost of health insurance and offer better medical services and look what it has done to the health care industry since it was implemented in 1973
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Last I heard it was 60%, in such a divided country 60% becomes a pretty high number.
If a president got 60% of the vote that would be an overwhelming victory in this day and age.
Though your lack of a quote makes me think you just like to make stuff up.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Republicans /Conservatives Lost the election - and the majority of people who voted Democrat do want a Public option.