Despite all this rhetoric about the popularity of Obama's health reform plan waning, there's still broad support for a public option.
In the NY Times / CBS poll taken a couple of weeks ago, there was still very strong support for a public option. See result (on Page 13) here. Yes, 66% said they supported some sort of "medicare like" plan being offered. This fact was not even included in the NY Times story covering this poll, which ran with the headline, New Poll Finds Growing Unease on Health Plan. Though the article noted that the changes in public opinion were "not huge", the narrative of the article was obvious, as was its neglect to even note the 66% support for a public option. This widespread support is something that the mainstream media still chooses to ignore as it continues to portray the issue as being "divisive".
With these politicians, pundits and journalists describing a move away from the public option as being a "move to the middle", I would like to ask them -
Since when has the middle occupied the 15th percentile?