According to a Rasmussen telephone poll from August 11, only 42% of Americans approve of the proposed health care reform. The telling factor is that this is down five percentage points from the same poll that was conducted just two weeks earlier.
Intensity, something that we touched on in class, plays an important role in the study. 44% of Americans strongly oppose the reform, compared to 26% Americans who strongly favor the reform.
Another interesting tidbit from the poll is that more Republicans disapprove of the plan than Democrats approve of it. Only 69% of Dems approve of the plan and a whopping 79% of Republicans support it.
With the Democrat majority in Congress and the large divide on this issue, it will be very interesting to see what happens on this proposed bill over the following weeks and months.
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