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Originally Posted by scout
Your quoting a 3 month old poll to support your position. More recent polls suggest less than half of Americans support health care reform as it is being presented at this time.
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Most of the recent polls I have see show a pretty even split for/against the plans currently on the tables....generally in the mid 40s for both sides.
What is also clear from most of the polls are the high percentages of people who believe the various myths that have been spread by the opposition are true -- will give health care to illegal immigrants, will result in government take over of the health care system, will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, will allow the government to make life/death decisions, etc.
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Last time the Democrats had a super majority in both houses and they forced something through against the wishes of the majority of Americans they lost the next election and it was 12 long years before they was trusted enough to have a majority. Then the hot topic was gun control, this time it is shaping up to be health care reform.
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I have no idea what your referring to here, but gun control legislation in the last 30+ years has always had majority public support...just not enough to counter to influence of the NRA.
To conclude that the Democrats lost the majority in Congress because of the gun issue is a simplistic rewriting of recent history to suit your personal agenda.