Today I just want to echo some very basic and excellent analysis by Gene Schwimmer at the American Thinker reguarding Healthcare reform and the conservative agenda In general. His post comes on the heels of and in response to Polling released by Rasmussen, which is by several magnitudes more realiable than say polls by the AFL-CIO, CBS and New York Times which we have covered here, and here. The Rasmussen poll shows that support for President Obama and congressional democrats plan for comprehesnive healthcare reform is quickly errording. Of those polled 49 percent “somewhat oppose” the plan, and 46 percent somewhat favor it. That is a change from two weeks ago when 50 percent were for the plan, and 45 percent were opposed to the plan. Even more interesting is the fact that those that strongly oppose the plan has increased to 38 percent, which is up 4 points from two weeks ago, and 22 percent strongly support the plan.
Today, on Rasmussen, Obama revisits his previous Approval Index low of -8, after a three-day (dead cat?) “bounce” to -7. Note that one of the numbers comprising the index, the Strongly Approve number, hits a new low, 28%.
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When presented with a new Obama-Democratic proposal that initially shows strong public support, Republicans should be wary of succumbing to arguments to succumb to the “will of the people” and support the proposal or risk defeat in the next election. As the new health care poll demonstrates, public opinion is subject to change when presented with a strong and principled argument.
Gene’s primary argument is that Conservatives and Congressional Republicans should not simply give up the fight or lay down and die every time a new big dollar deficit exploding proposal by President Obama comes down the pipe, that is met with broad initial public support. Instead Conservatives should work to change public opinion through strong principaled argument.
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