(Quinnipiac/NYT/CBS) In Poll, Obama Is Given Trust Over Medicare

[ProSense]

In Poll, Obama Is Given Trust Over Medicare

By MICHAEL COOPER and DALIA SUSSMAN
Published: August 23, 2012

The Romney-Ryan proposal to reshape Medicare by giving future beneficiaries fixed amounts of money to buy health coverage is deeply unpopular in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to new polls that found that more likely voters in each state trust President Obama to handle Medicare.

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After more than a week of frenzied campaigning on the issue, Medicare ranks as the third-most crucial issue to likely voters in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin — behind the economy and health care, according to new Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News polls of the three swing states. The Republican proposal to retool the program a decade from now is widely disliked.

Roughly 6 in 10 likely voters in each state want Medicare to continue providing health insurance to older Americans the way it does today; fewer than a third of those polled said Medicare should be changed in the future to a system in which the government gives the elderly fixed amounts of money to buy health insurance or Medicare insurance, as Mr. Romney has proposed. And Medicare is widely seen as a good value: about three-quarters of the likely voters in each state said the benefits of Medicare are worth the cost to taxpayers.

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In Florida and Wisconsin, where Mr. Obama had led Mr. Romney by six percentage points in polls conducted before the selection of Mr. Ryan, the race is essentially tied. Mr. Obama is ahead in Florida by 49 percent to 46 percent and in Wisconsin by 49 percent to 47 percent — differences within the polls’ margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. Mr. Obama retains a six-point advantage in Ohio, where he leads Mr. Romney 50 percent to 44 percent, unchanged from last month’s survey.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/us/politics/polls-say-medicare-is-key-issue-in-3-swing-states.html

[nc4bo]

1. This where that study done re: Why It's Easy To Scam Old People comes into play.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021150388

It's going to boil down to R/R convincing seniors that 1) Obama robbed Medicare to pay for Obamacare and 2) R/R plan will not effect current seniors and 3) R/R will not negative effect SS/Medicare/Medicaid.

Just how gullible is this particular electorate?

[jerryster]

2. Good news, but...

Yesterday,I heard a report of a poll that shows Romney with a double digit lead in Florida AMONG SENIORS!! That tells me that the medicare lie is working.

[demwing]

3. got a link to that?

I'd like to see who's saying that

[nc4bo]

4. +1. nt

[ProSense]

5. That was a bogus

poll where more than 90 percent of the respondents were over 50.

Aug. 20: When the Polling Gets Weird

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All of this polling was pretty normal, of course. But there was one last survey. It was from the polling firm Foster McCollum White Baydoun, which conducts polls for Democratic candidates as well as independently. It was a poll of Florida and it had Mr. Romney ahead by nearly 15 points there.

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In 2008, for instance, voters 65 and older made up 22 percent of Florida’s electorate, according to exit polls there. By contrast, the same demographic made up 16 percent of the national vote.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/aug-20-when-the-polling-gets-weird/

Poll Demographics:

18 to 30 1.3 percent
31 to 50 7.6 percent
51 to 65 27.48 percent
66 and older 63.5 percent

Clearly that's ludicrous.

[demwing]

6. Thanks, thos numbers didn't smell right

and obviously there was a good reason for the smell