With a poll of likely voters showing Driehaus 17 points down to his Republican opponent, there appears to be a more important takeaway: the Democrats have 10 months before the 2010 election to stand up to the banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies and show that they really can be the party of reform. If he wants to save his seat, Driehaus should get in front of that parade and insist that the mandate and penalties come out of the bill — something 70% of the people in his district think is “unfair.” Because that is something that progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans agree on.

A new CBS News poll finds that a significant plurality of Americans do not feel reform has gone far enough. It also shows that overall support for Obama’s handling of health care reform has dropped to an all-time low of just 36%. The most interesting questions in the poll were about whether people think reform [...]

A new Quinnipiac poll shows support for a public option remains strong, even as Senate Democrats look to kill the idea: [V]oters support 56 – 38 percent giving people the option of being covered by a government health insurance plan, compared to 57 – 35 percent November 19. The public option has managed to maintain [...]

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Harry Reid has raised a small fortune for his reelection campaign, and it’s not working.

now.

Call Nevada Democrats and let them know they deserve better than this kind of flim-flam. You can find their phone numbers and a script here.

A new survey from Thomson Reuters is the roughly the 100th poll to show that an overwhelming majority of Americans want a public option. The poll found that 59.9% of people favor reform containing a public option. Despite being heavily attacked by insurance companies, Republicans, and a handful of conservative Democrats, the public option remains consistently [...]

Anyway, it looks Reid’s poll is another attempt to put the pressure on the White House. I don’t think he wants this hot potato.

The House Dems have 77% of the country behind them. Conrad and Bayh have WellPoint and Blue Cross behind them, and messy financial ties to boot. Will they join with the Republicans to filibuster a Democratic health care bill? Because as Kagro X says, that is very much what they are saying they will do.

Polling wiz Nate Silver reports that Obama has a 5.8-point lead in the national popular vote. McCain is trailing in Pennsylvania, despite a massive last-minute campaign onslaught.

Virtually every winning scenario for McCain presupposes that the polls are flat-out wrong, whether because of the Bradley effect, voter suppression, electronic voter fraud, or the most massive statistical fluke in the history of quantitation.

This might be a window into why that shakeup just took place at the top of Team McCain. In the past, Republicans have derided Obama’s attempts to increase the playing field beyond a dozen or so swing states. Well, with polls showing him leading in Virginia and Colorado, and within the margin of error in North Carolina and Georgia, you may have thought he had already accomplished that.