Other polls show quite different results, this is apparently one of those questions where, for many, how you word the question determines the answer.
In addition to the way the question is asked, the methodology of the poll is important. For example several months back when a question was asked about giving the public the option to join a Medicare like program 72% supported the idea, but it turns out that 48% of the members of the group had voted for Obama and only 25% for McCain, almost 2 to 1, when the actual difference was more like 1.15 to 1.
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For examples of how different questions, selection issues, and/or other aspects of methodology have given widely differing results when polling on this question see the picture linked to below (embedding doesn't work for it, so I just provide the link)
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Edit - But the poll apparently uses a similar group, and asks the same question as previous polls by the same organization, and support for the public option is up from the last poll. I don't think the selection or methodology is so faulty as to make the change meaningless if its large enough to be significant, considering the question is the same. But I'm not sure if the change from the last one is statistically significant, and even if it is you get "support is up", more than "support is strong". |
