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[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] For the most part, the health care numbers are following the same trend, although you can perceive a bit of a secular drop during August, the Month of a Million Town Halls (followed by partial recovery in September, after Obama's address to a joint session of Congress). Although this is not easily provable -- and certainly not proven by this data -- I suspect that much of the anxiety over health care reform also stems from anxiety about the economy, in ways that are both general and specific.

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[News Cut] Five at 8 -11/20/09: Things to do while reading the health care ...: Midmorning (9-11 a.m.) - First hour: New guidelines recommending against yearly mammograms for women between the ages of 40 and 49 are creating confusion and anxiety among women, and stirring anger in the medical community.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a ...: He's not up for 3 years, he's getting up there in years (so might not be running again), the polling and blueness of CT at least push against this (if not flat out contradict it), and PAC money from one industry is hardly necessary to a Senator with his name recognition (most senators get most of their money from individuals). So, all these electoral reasons don't seem to be enough to put him in this position.

[dotCommonweal] dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » Doing the Unthinkable!: Let me recall the brouhaha of last fall when Douglas Kmiec argued against the stand that some bishops had taken about voting for Obama. He in no way compromised the Catholic position on the morality of abortion, but argued that applying it to an election did not, as some bishops claimed, require a rejection of Obama’s candidacy.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Sarah Palin (R, Asterisk): Obama on the other hand is seemingly heedless of the people's misery, signing a pretend stim-u-less bill that was really just a cover for a big special interest give way to the likes of ACORN (virtually nothing in the way of infrastructure spending) and pushing forward with new taxes on energy and everything we make (cap and trade) while seeking to re-make health care in accordance with his European welfare state vision in the face of unsustainable budget deficits.

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