Take a look at the garbage the AP is putting out as a valid poll:
President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November. But the picture’s not that clear cut.
A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should have done more outnumber those who think the government should stay out of health care by 2-to-1
~~~The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral. On the other side, about one in five say they oppose the law because they think the federal government should not be involved in health care at all.
The AP poll was conducted by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation…..hmmm, who might they be?
Our strategy
Americans’ lack of meaningful access to affordable and stable health care coverage has been a central concern of the Foundation since its inception 35 years ago.
~~~In light of an evolving environment and promising opportunities, we are working in several areas to accomplish our goal of ensuring that everyone in America has affordable and stable health care coverage.
~~~Conducting Research and Analysis on Factors that Affect Availability of Affordable, Stable Coverage. We are particularly interested in commissioning, conducting and disseminating innovative research and policy analysis that will reveal the fundamental barriers to achieving affordable and stable health care coverage for all, including the rapidly rising cost of care and the structural features of private health insurance markets.
So let me get this straight. A foundation, whose sole goal is to get ObamaCare implemented, gave money to Stanford to conduct a poll on healthcare and shockingly Stanford found people want even more ObamaCare.
Give me a break.
I’ve yet to find the original polling data but Mac did:
I obtained a copy of the polling sample. It’s heavily weighted as you would expect. But additionally that “random sample” across the nation polling method actually only targeted blue states which would make a 2-1 result a no braining.
States were primarily in the North East, and none of the sample came from any of the so-called red territories of the South.
The AP can proclaim this as some kind of validation of their Socialist dreams but only a blind fool would see this poll as unbiased.
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