What To Choose To Learn From This

Via BooMan comes the exit polls from Research 2000 for yesterday's voting:

OBAMA VOTERS WHO VOTED BROWN

QUESTION: Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of a government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get -- that would compete with private health insurance plans?

             FAVOR OPPOSE NOT SURE

ALL          82%   14%    4%

MEN          79%   18%    3%

WOMEN        85%   10%    5%

DEMOCRATS    89%   7%     4%

REPUBLICANS  68%   24%    8%

INDEPENDENTS 83%   13%    4%

QUESTION: Do you favor or oppose the health care reform proposal recently passed by the U.S. Senate?

             FAVOR OPPOSE NOT SURE

ALL          32%   48%    20%

MEN          29%   52%    19%

WOMEN        35%   44%    21%

DEMOCRATS    42%   46%    12%

REPUBLICANS  11%   68%    21%

INDEPENDENTS 33%   47%    20%

QUESTION: If oppose, do you think it goes too far or doesn't go far enough?

             NOT ENOUGH TOO FAR NOT SURE

ALL          36%        23%     41%

MEN          34%        26%     40%

WOMEN        38%        20%     42%

DEMOCRATS    49%        18%     33%

REPUBLICANS  11%        61%     28%

INDEPENDENTS 38%        20%     42%

As you can see, of the people who voted for Obama in Massachusetts in 2008 and then voted for Scott Brown in 2010, they overwhelmingly want a public option, and overwhelmingly dislike the current Senate HCR bill.  They think the Senate bill doesn't go far enough.

This becomes even more clear when the Research 2000 people asked Obama voters who stayed home yesterday and didn't vote:

• 86% want a Medicare for all type public option.
• 43% oppose the Senate bill.
• 53% oppose the Senate bill because it didn't go far enough.

Your Obama Republicans?  They ditched Brown becuase there was no public option in the health care bill.  Put one back in during reconciliation, and you win.

Class dismissed.