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October 21, 2009

NRO: Recent Public-Option Polls are Agenda Driven

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Kellyanne Conway, a a Republican strategist and pollster, says recent public-option polling is agenda-driven:

The Washington Post poll is the latest example of a "public poll" in the past 2-3 weeks that curiously shows a growing number of Americans supportive of the "public option." AP and Gallup were others. This is agenda-driven polling.

The fact is: Asking an ignorant public about the "public option" is incomplete polling. It calls for a response to feel-good phraseology rather than a probing of underlying ideology. "Public option" in health care is not so different from "campaign-finance reform," "Violence against Women's Act," "revenue enhancements," and such.

Our side has not done enough to discredit and expose the positive-sounding "public option" for what it truly is: a government grab of one of the most intimate matters people face, and one about which most of them are presently content.

Additionally, "private" is the opposite of public, and privacy is an important word in the overall health-care lexicon. We should message this aspect of "public option" as well.

While I'm certainly no strategist nor a pollster, even I had figured out that the public-option polls had to be agenda-driven. Simply put, without push-polling, the American people just aren't stupid enough to support the public option and its accompanying destruction of America's health-care system - complete with rationing and even greater increased cost than the Dems' health-care bill without it.

Related:
Rasmussen: Fear of Losing Private Insurance Trumps Hope of Public Option
Who Cares What The Public Says About Public Option?

Posted by Richard at October 21, 2009 7:52 PM

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