Americans oppose Dem health care after failure of summit

Gallup:

Americans are skeptical that lawmakers will agree on a new healthcare bill at Thursday's bipartisan healthcare summit in Washington, D.C. If an agreement is not reached, Americans by a 49% to 42% margin oppose rather than favor Congress passing a healthcare bill similar to the one proposed by President Obama and Democrats in the House and Senate. By a larger 52% to 39% margin, Americans also oppose the Democrats in the Senate using a reconciliation procedure to avoid a possible Republican filibuster and pass a bill by a simple majority vote.

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The Democrats did not really change any minds and Obama did not look like a fair arbiter of the debate. Most of the times when he challenged Republicans he was just flat wrong. Cong. Ryan and Sen. Alexander demonstrated that on more than one occasion as did Sen. McCain.

While this poll shows Americans opposing the Democrat push on health care, it probably understates the opposition, because the passion by a great margin is on the side of opposing the President's plan. Those are the voters who will be eager to vote against Democrats this fall.

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