Are The Health Care Protests Working? And are Liberals Helping Them?

FiveThirtyEight by Nate Silver | Aug. 13, 2009 (Opinion)

It's been interesting to digest the interaction between liberal and conservative blogs on the issue of the health care protests. If you take a look at a service like Memorandum, you'll find that stories about the protests have almost always been the lede in the blogosphere over the course of the past 10-14 days. There are daily, and sometimes even hourly, ebbs and flows in who seems to be pushing the stories -- conservative blogs one day, liberal blogs the ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 14, 2009

It is a mushy discussion that ignores the lynching threats and menacing and intimidation and astroturf and shouting down discussion, to only wonder about poll effects.

But the real upside to the protests is that they perpetuate misinformation about the Democrats’ bills. More »

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by Fabrice Florin - Aug. 13, 2009

Informative observations on whether or not health care protests are influencing public attitudes towards the reform plans debated in Congress. This report presents factual evidence from recent polls, as well as a reasonable interpretation from the author.

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by Derek Hawkins - Aug. 13, 2009

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White House turns to campaign tactics as support erodes for health care reform

Daily Telegraph by Toby Harnden | Aug. 13, 2009 (News Report)

The latest survey shows that the backlash in public meetings with politicians against health reforms is sapping support for the flagship policy of Barack Obama's ...

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