politicartoons | President Obama address the "Congressional Town Hall Meeting" tonight

Yes he should not have to talk to the majority of people...

Republicans don't have a majority. :-)

You just got lobbed the easiest set-up ever.

Zig!

Obama doesn't either (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090909/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_ap_poll_health_care).

Eh. Doesn't matter really, since Congressional majorities are what I was talking about. But by all means, feel free to babble on. (http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=AIA2009090302)

Congressional majorities on the matter in question are quite doubtful at the moment.

Thanks for the totally irrelevant link, btw.

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Indeed.

WASHINGTON – Public disapproval of President Barack Obama's handling of health care has jumped to 52 percent, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released hours before he makes his case for overhaul in a prime-time address to Congress.

They want him to step forward, take command, and push a good, solid, actually reformative plan through.

Some of them do. That's the beauty of the moment: if Obama goes for public option, he alienates conservatives, independents, and even some Democrats. If he drops public option, he alienates his base as well. It's not easy to get oneself into position like this. He is very talented politician.

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You mean the ones that voted him into office?

The majority of Americans voted for President Obama.

The majority of Americans are represented in the House and Senate by Democrats.

The majority of Americans support health-care reform.

To be more specific, the majority (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html) of Americans support the public option. To be even more (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/the-public-option.html) specific, independents support it by a margin of 57-33.

Your side may be the loudest right now, but you are not the majority. Just sayin'.

Great links.

First link says that survey was commissioned by MoveOn, and add that "Earlier in the week, after pollsters for NBC dropped the word "choice" from their question on a public option, they found that only 43 percent of the public were in favor of "creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies."

Second link gives us the DailyKos poll.

This is auto-hypnosis, my friend. Not that I mind, though: the more you guys are out of touch, the better. So please don't look at more respected pollsters like Gallup (http://www.gallup.com/poll/122822/Americans-Sharply-Divided-Healthcare-Reform.aspx).

Second link gives up the DailyKos poll.

Research 2000 did the poll. DailyKos only commissioned it, but I'm sure you knew the difference though.

Like it changes something. Research 2000 can call itself "the Nation’s most unbiased and reliable research firm", but people will still be searching for reliable data in other places.