Wednesday, March 24, 2010

11%, 8%, and 78%

I am not one to put too much credit in a poll but when poll after poll is coming up with statistics showing how truly angry the majority of the population of this country are the polls really cannot be ignored.

11% and 8%.

It is worth putting the above percentages by themselves in an incomplete sentence to highlight the numbers. These are the current approval ratings for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid respectively. These numbers come from CBS News, definitely not ideologically right-leaning news organization.

Another day and two new polls showing the American people are strongly against the health care plan President Obama signed into law. According to CNN, 59% of Americans oppose President Obama's plan. And according to CBS News, 48% of Americans oppose the plan (with 33% in strong opposition) compared to only 37% who support it (with only 13% in strong support). Digging deeper into the CBS poll, we find that 76% of Americans disapprove of how Congress is handling its job on health care, 46% think Congress has spent too much time on health care, and 49% believe the rules and procedures used in Congress to get the current health care bill passed have been mostly unfair.

78%.

That is the percentage of Americans polled that think ALL members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate should be replaced. It will be an interesting election in November.

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