A new USA Today/Gallup poll reaffirms this blog's continued faith in the American public to see through the Pelosi/Obama/MSNBC attacks on health care protesters as unamerican.
"From what you know or have read, have these town hall meeting protests against the proposed bills made you more sympathetic to the protestors' views, do the protests not make any difference to you either way, or have the protests made you less sympathetic to the protestors' views?" Options rotated
More Sympathetic No Difference Less Sympathetic Unsure
% % % % 8/11/09
34 36 21 10
"From what you know and have read, do you think each of the following is a major factor, a minor factor, or not a factor in why the protests against health care bills are taking place at these town hall meetings? How about [see below]?"
Major Factor Minor Factor Not a Factor Unsure
% % % %
"Concern about the health care bills that average citizens had well before the meetings took place"
8/11/09
57 24 13 6
"Recent efforts by political activists to create organized opposition to the health care bills"
8/11/09
48 27 18 8
As you can see, of the people who are taking these protests into account, significantly more are growing MORE sympathetic rather than less to the protestors. In addition, people recognize that genuine anger plays a bigger role than political groups in getting these groups out, despite the media's best attempts to paint it otherwise.
There is room for improvement though, as this poll also reaffirm's Republican Punk's views on how these could be properly run:
"Generally speaking, do you consider each of the following actions at town hall meetings to be an example of democracy in action or an example of abuse of democracy? How about [see below]?" Options rotated
Democracy In Action Abuse of Democracy Unsure
% % %
"Individuals making angry attacks against a health care bill and what it might do"
8/11/09
51 41 8
"Booing when members of Congress make statements that the opponents disagree with"
8/11/09
44 47 9
"Shouting down supporters when they speak in favor of a health care bill"
8/11/09
33 59 8
Basically, being angry at the bill and the congressperson if they support it...yes! But be respectful. We kind of wish that was common sense, but what can you do. Let's let the poll numbers reaffirm it.
Source: Polling Report
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I think you might be slightly overstating the statistics. If the poll is accurate, then while there are certainly people becoming more sympathetic, that number is nearly matched by those who aren't affected, and MORE people are either unaffected by the protests or are less sympathetic because of them, than are more sympathetic to the protestors.
ReplyDeleteYes, but ever MORE people are more sympathetic or not affected than not sympathetic...all I said is out of people affected, they are more likely to be positively affected, meaning that the left's hit on them is not working.
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