The chickens is comin' home to roost, y'all.

either that or such polls normally swing wildly after post-election high lets down.

Please, lets all jump to conclusions. The American Public is notoriously fickle.

You know, this really doesn't help to combat the image that Republicans are nothing but a bunch of rednecks....

of course one could argue that the debate over health care has been the biggest factor and the heavy heavy lobbying campaign against the democrats (the heaviest I've ever seen in a non-election year) and 'public option' has a lot to do with it. Anyone got the figures on issue-spending on political advertising this year?

Democrats have dropped the ball on Health Care. They have become too frightened of a tiny, extremist and vocal minority, and are ignoring reams of polls that show the public *wants* a robust public option.

Montegue:

We can look at very real facts about the situation as well. Republicans have won 33 of the 56 Special Elections that took place since the 2008 Election. Republicans took the governor's office in 2 "blue" states, as far as the 2008 Election went. This seems to suggest that the voting public is displeased with Democratic leadership. At the very least, the voting public is displeased with both sides of the partisan leadership in the nation.

That said, polls indicate that the majority of Americans want no change in their current healthcare situation. These polls have been posted on this forum by DFK! more times than I can count. And, yet, you continue to consider that everyone wants a robust public option. You dismiss all vocal or public opposition to Obama and Democrat policy on anything as extremism, tiny, and fundamentalist; yet, the opposition has the Senate and House; and votes are not going the direction that would dictate support for the Democratic Party of the United States.

The situation, from where I'm sitting, is that the silent majority in the United States has finally decided to speak. They have finally decide to tell the government the following things:

1. We're tired of supporting those who refuse to support themselves.
2. We're tired of footing the bill for rampant borrow and spend governance.
3. We're tired of being told other people are entitled to the fruits of our labor.

I have posted, twice now, an article that explains far more eloquently and brilliantly than I could ever hope to achieve how Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and John Kerry Commoditized the office of the Presidency; how factionalism in the United States has reduced our governance to an advertising campaign and nothing more. I implore you to read it. The author's name is Slavoj Žižek.

One of the main sticking points, a public option administered by the federal government that would compete with private insurers, wins support from 53 percent of the public.

Rafael:

That's the problem with false dilemma politics.

One of the main sticking points, a public option administered by the federal government that would compete with private insurers, wins support from 53 percent of the public.