‘Health care do-over!’ sayeth… New Jersey.


They sayeth that, in fact, by a lot.

The Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released Thursday finds 81 percent of respondents wanting changes to the health care system, while 17 percent believe the current system works well enough.

But only 22 percent say Congress should pass the current reform proposals, while 68 percent want lawmakers to start over.

That’s two-thirds of adult voters in NJ who are calling for a mulligan. What’s the breakdown for likely ones? – And that’s a question that probably keeps the people on the list below up at nights:

Congressman HCR Christie?
Robert Andrews Yes Yes
John Adler No Yes
Frank Pallone Yes Yes
William Pascrell Yes Yes
Steven Rothman Yes No
Donald Payne Yes No
Rush Holt Yes Yes
Albio Sires Yes Yes

The list, of course, is the Democratic Congressional delegation for NJ. Payne and Holt Rothman [Oops!] are probably not too worried – they’re the only legislators on the list who had their counties carried by Corzine in the last election – and John Adler read the tea leaves a while back anyway.  The rest of them need to… think about things.

Quickly.  There’s only seven and a half months until the election.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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Typo: You Say "Payne & Holt", But I Think You Mean "Payne & Rothman" (nt)

IJB Friday, March 12th at 11:28AM EST (link)

Oops! Fixed.

Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 1:33PM EST (link)
 

In a sane world this would have an impact

earlgrey (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 11:49AM EST (link)

Ot, the league of american voters are running ads in salt lake city, matheson’s district, over the nomination of his brother to the appeals court.

 

I think they should follow form and think it over slowly

The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 12:30PM EST (link)

It’s not like any ONE of them is going to turn the tide right now. If they were the potential deciding vote, sure there would be cause for quick but careful consideration. But they aren’t. And if passing healthcare reform is critical to people, they’ll vote appropriately in the next election and the congresscritters either can be the deciding vote or vote safely with the rest of the critters. And if voters go the opposite way, hey it wasn’t their fault it failed. They were with the President (with the voting record to prove it on the House plan) and had committed to Nancy privately, she just wasn’t able to come up with the last critical vote. They can blame other selfish House critters or those thrice cursed Senators, or those gosh darned Tea people, or even Sarah Palin.