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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A Brutal Turning of the Tide

MSNBC
[T]he latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that those believing President Obama's health-reform plan is a good idea has sunk to its lowest level.

Just 32 percent say it's a good idea, versus 47 percent who say it's a bad idea.

In addition, for the first time in the survey, a plurality prefers the status quo to reform. By a 44-41 percent margin, respondents say it would be better to keep the current system than to pass Obama's health plan.

Needless to say this brutal reversal results from a perfect storm of deranged Teabagger enthusiasm and Democratic Base demoralization, but it is worth noting that this is precisely the perfect storm that might hand over Congress to the GOP in the mid-terms.

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