Move Over Health-Care, You Had Your Shot
The opportunity to enact health-care reform is quietly slipping away. Demonstrating just how unimportant it now is to many Americans is a poll running in the Daily Citizen, the paper of record for a small, blue-collar town in Wisconsin of about 15,000. The paper’s online poll asks:
“If you were given five minutes with President Obama, which of these topics do you feel would be the most important to discuss?”
The results are grim for health-care, with over 70% of respondents choosing jobs or economy.
Obama is clearly listening to this as messages from the White House shift to banks, middle-class health and job creation and away from health-care. With the new senate, the White House’s new agenda and Democrats scared if midterms, its becoming harder and harder to imagine legislators having the stones to push through any kind of reform anytime soon. Shame. So close.
RELATED: The above poll is what a paper servicing a town of 15,000 considers editorially respectable. This is a paper that is basically a bunch of barely-news meant to deliver the latest supermarket coupons on 25 cents off beets and a list of all the local recent dead. But compare its editorial decision to that of a global “professional news” organization like CNN, whose current poll is below.
CNN: Out-journalismed by two guys in a small room in small-town Wisconsin.
Isn’t having a poll on any news site (unless it’s asking specifically about the site) completely pointless? I am against polls.
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