by STML

Question: Why did Glenn Beck LIE when he said only 35% of the population supports Public Option?
Numerous recent polls on public option found widespread support

Wash. Post/ABC poll: 57 percent support government plan “to compete with private health insurance plans.” When respondents were asked in an October 15-18 Washington Post/ABC News poll whether they would “support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans,” 57 percent said they supported the plan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_101909.html

CNN/Opinion Research: 61 percent favor creating public option “administered by the federal government.” When respondents were asked in an October 16-18 CNN/Opinion Research poll whether they “favor or oppose creating a public health insurance option administered by the federal government that would compete with plans offered by private health insurance companies,” 61 percent said they favored the plan.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/10/21/rel15f.pdf#page=3

CBS News: 62 percent favor government offering “a government administered health insurance plan.” When respondents were asked in an October 5-8 CBS News poll whether they would “favor or oppose the government offering everyone 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,” 62 percent said they would support the plan.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_health_care_100909.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody#page=11

Kaiser Family Foundation: 57 percent favor “[c]reating a government-administered public health insurance option.” When respondents were asked in an October 8-15 Kaiser Family Foundation poll whether they favored “[c]reating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans,” 57 percent said they favored such a plan.

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7997.pdf#page=5

USA Today/Gallup: 50 percent support a “public, government-run insurance plan.” When respondents were asked in an October 16-19 USA Today/Gallup poll, “If Congress passes a healthcare bill, do you think it should or should not include a public, government-run insurance plan to compete with plans offered by private insurance companies?” 50 percent said they thought the bill should have the plan.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/123782/In-U.S.-39-Say-View-Healthcare-Depends-Details.aspx

According to the poll, 48% say they favor a public health plan administered by the federal government that would compete with private insurers, compared with 42% who oppose it. In another question asked a different way — is it important to give people a choice of a public option? — a combined 72% answered that it was either “extremely important” or “quite important,” while just 23% said it was “not that important” or “not at all important.” The NBC/WSJ poll, which was conducted Oct. 22-25, has a margin of error of +/- 4.4% on these two questions.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/27/2109332.aspx?ocid=twitter

“…Glenn Beck falsely suggested that only “35 percent of the population” supported a public option…”

http://mediamatters.org/research/200910270015

They poll more Democrats because there is more Democrats than Republicans…duhhh.

20% of adults identify themselves as Republican.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902451_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009101902502

Answer:

Answer by Angela Q
He believes in his heart that that’s what the numbers should be, therefore they are correct. Facts don’t matter. Numbers don’t matter. Truth doesn’t matter, except as an obsolete concept to manipulate suckers. ?°)