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Scots splash out on perfume

According to a survey, Scots spend the most on personal grooming products online,... more

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Poll finds soaring European support for US policy...

WASHINGTON — European support for the U.S. president's handling of foreign... more

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Gallup: Obama's approval rating on the rise

Contrary to what one might expect, President Obama's approval ratings are up and... more

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Poll: 86 percent say insurance, public or private, should be available to all

Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support a federal health insurance plan for those who... more

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Hannity again falsely claims Democratic leaders are accusing the protestors of being un-American.

hypocrite alert Hannity clams Democratic leaders are accusing the protestors of... more

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Montanans Not Backing Baucus' Work On Health Care

Montanans are not terribly keen on the job that home state Senator Max Baucus is doing on health care reform, according to a new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll.

Only 42 percent of Montana residents -- and 34 percent of Democrats -- said they favored the work Baucus had done in shepherding health care legislation through the Senate Finance Committee. Forty-four percent of respondents said they disapproved, according to the poll of more than 600 people in the state.

The results may be partially attributable to Baucus's apparent decision to craft legislation without a public option. Within Montana, 47 percent of the public supports creating a "public health insurance option," while 43 percent oppose it. Looking closer at the numbers, slightly less than one-quarter of Republicans (23 percent) support a public plan. Forty-eight percent of independents and 78 percent of Democrats support the provision.

Baucus' role in overseeing health care reform on the critical Senate Finance Committee has caused a great deal of consternation among progressives. The Montana Democrat has been targeted by ads calling into question the millions of dollars in campaign donations he has received from private insurance and health industry interests. His failure to meet a self-imposed August recess deadline for producing legislation -- and his willingness to negotiate away the public plan -- has only infuriated those Democrats more.

That said, a majority of Montanans continue to view Baucus positively, with 50 percent of the Daily Kos/Research 2000 respondents saying they had a favorable view of the Senator compared to the 42 percent who had an unfavorable view. And while the state's residents are supportive of a public plan, most said that Baucus' stance on the provision won't affect their support of him.

Asked how their votes would be affected if Baucus were to oppose "a public health insurance option," 17 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Senator, 22 percent said they would be less likely to vote for him. Sixty-one percent said it would have no effect.

Asked how their votes would be affected if Baucus "joined Republican Senators in filibustering and killing a final health care bill because it had a public health insurance option," 27 percent said they would be less likely to vote for him, 15 percent said they would be more likely to vote for him. Fifty-eight percent said it would have no effect.Montanans are not terribly keen on the job that home state Senator Max Baucus is doing... more

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Health Care Explained On The Back Of A Napkin (SLIDESHOW)

Dan Roam explains things, usually on the back of napkins. He does it so much that he... more

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NBC To Test Public Option As Choice And Alternative In Next Survey

Critics who called out the NBC poll for excising the word "choice" from its question about a public option for health insurance will be happier by next month's survey, which will ask the question both with and without that key element.

Supporters of the public option were upset by Tuesday's survey which, after the language change, found support for a government-run alternative to private insurance down a staggering 33 percent, to 43 percent, in just two months.

NBC's White House correspondent Chuck Todd told the Huffington Post on Wednesday afternoon that pollsters Bill McInturff and Peter Hart will ask respondents two questions regarding the public plan for their September study.

The first: "Would you favor or oppose creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies?"

The second: "In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance?"

The inclusion of both questions should provide an interesting window into how slight changes in messaging can (or don't) drastically alter the health care debate. The latter question, which emphasizes the idea of having something publicly run, was asked in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll in June with 76 percent of respondents saying they felt it was either extremely or quite important to have a public option. The former question was asked in July and August, with 46 and 43 percent of respondents respectively saying they favored a public option.

Todd's decision to put both questions in the mix also should placate a host of progressive health care proponents who were critical of the NBC pollsters.

On Wednesday, Todd defended the decision to drop "choice" from the survey, calling the word a "trigger" that sent a certain "message" to respondents. And while he argued that the revised way of asking the question was "very neutral" he admitted that the idea of putting both options side by side was "something we wanted to test."Critics who called out the NBC poll for excising the word "choice" from its... more

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New poll: 77% support "choice" of public option

More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.

A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in June.

But the numbers tell another story, as well.

Earlier in the week, after pollsters for NBC dropped the word "choice" from their question on a public option, they found that only 43 percent of the public were in favor of "creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies."

Opponents of the president's agenda jumped on the findings as evidence that backing for the public option was dropping. Proponents responded by arguing that NBC's tinkering with the language of the question (which it had also done in its July survey) had contributed to the drop in favorability for a public plan.

SurveyUSA's poll, which was commissioned by the progressive group MoveOn.org, a proponent of the public plan, gives credence to those critiques. While arguments about what type of language best describe the public option persist --"choice" is considered a trigger word that everyone naturally supports -- it seems clear that the framing of the provision goes a long way toward determining its popularity.

In asking its question SurveyUSA used the same exact words that NBC/Wall Street Journal had used when conducting its June 2009 survey. That one that found 76 percent approval for the public option: "In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?"

To ensure that its respondent pool was composed of people from similar demographics and political mindsets, SurveyUSA asked respondents a question pulled directly from NBC's August survey. The results were nearly identical.

Read a description of the president's health care plan, 51 percent of Survey USA respondents said they "favored" the approach, while 43 percent opposed it. In the NBC poll, 53 percent of respondents said they favored the president's plan, 43 percent said they opposed it.More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a... more

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Nearly Half of US Believes Death Panel Lies

There’s a pretty striking finding buried in the new NBC/WSJ poll: It turns out... more

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70% of Americans Say Married Women Should Change Their Names, 50% Say They Should Be Required To

Newly minted brides should do more than vow to love their hubbies for a lifetime, say... more

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Americans Return to Tougher Immigration Stance

Americans have returned to a tougher stance on immigration than has been evident for... more

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Facebook: No Government Healthcare

A recent user poll on Facebook has shown that the majority of those who answered the... more

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Who's The Sexiest Senator?

The 100 members of the U.S. Senate are constantly in the public eye, so we... more

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XFM's Best British Songs Of All Time

XFM conducted a poll to find out the Top 100 British Songs of all time and of course a... more

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GOP Losses Span Nearly All Demographic Groups

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The Torture of Polls | The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!

A new poll finds churchgoers are more likely to support the torture of terrorists.... more

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94% of Facebook users hate new design

Facebook's redesign is getting an emphatic thumbs down from the notoriously... more

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Obama's sky-high popularity dips in first month

President Barack Obama's job approval rating dipped in his first month in office... more

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65% of Americans say religion is important in their daily life

"A January 2009 Gallup poll on religiosity finds that the United States is... more

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