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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (480246)	10/23/2003 12:53:50 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Health care won't be a deciding factor in this election. All democrats want some form of improved public health care. Kerry's more moderate plan is least likely to be attacked as socialistic and Hillary Clintonesque.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (480246)	10/23/2003 1:16:56 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769667

The same skewed poll showed that once you start factoring in the realities, e.g. what the coverage will actually be, and what the costs are, and lack of choice of doctors, support fell dramatically. They didn't ask the most relevant questions at all, e.g. the real tax costs vs. the real benefits received. In other words, that question is worthless, unless people think a 100% tax rate would be worthwhile in return for a "free" annual checkup for everybody. Think again. If asked that question, support would be 0.000005% (just you lefties on this thread. LOL). The questions in this "poll" were asked in a calculated order to elicit an overall response, then follow-ups added caveats, conditions, and alternatives, so the media could highlight the results of any particular question totally out of context, thereby producing the headline results for any story they wanted. If the questions had been asked in reverse order, the results would have been dramatically different. But, unlike a test you take in school, they didn't ask at the end whether those polled would like to go back and change any answers in light of the later questions. It was the same skewed poll that you numbnuts were pointing to last week regarding the war and Bush's popularity. The media only saw fit to play up the health care questions this week, once the headlines from the earlier numbers faded. And you think there's no media conspiracy? Ha. I predict that a new firestorm of stories highlighting "an ABC/Washington Post news poll" about the Pope, his handling of the Catholic Church's sex scandal, and his overall effectiveness will be in the headlines soon, because that was another area where multiple questions, with calculated followups of a general and specific nature were asked. The media will have several angles to choose from in concocting their stories. As an aside, the accuracy of this intentionally skewed "poll" should be called into question by the illiteracy of the pollsters, if for no other reason. The questioner could hardly speak English, and had to repeat some questions several times, phrasing them differently each time they were read. I also have to wonder how many of the answers were even recorded properly.