Last week, [PDF format warning] the latest Associated Press-GfK poll was released and, as Rebecca found when she dug through the numbers, Americans do not support the ObamaBigBusinessGive-Away.
The poll asked, "In general, do you support, oppose or neither support nor oppose the health care reform plans being discussed in Congress?"
36% of respondents supported it in any form ("strongly" or "somewhat"). For a measure that's passed the House and the Senate, that's an appalling low number.
44% of respondents declared they were opposed to ObamaCare.
How did something that more Americans oppose than support pass Congress?
It has to do with who benefits.
For Congress, insurance companies will contribute big to political races as part of the trade-off (in forcing every American to purchase insurance). And our 'brave' press has always been corporate controlled which is why objections are rarely reported on and, when they do get coverage, it's outlandish examples.
The opposition to ObamaCare was the big story of 2009 and it's amazing how the media -- Big and Small -- managed to ensure it went unnoted or else objections were marginalized.
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Illustration is Isaiah's "Telemarketer in Chief" from August.