re: #387 Jaerik
59-60% of Americans still support public option as of December 9th. (Warning: PDF)
That’s pretty much unchanged since June.
FiveThirtyEight actually has a good breakdown of this apparent paradox. Basically, a non-trivial chunk (12% of the spread) “disapproving” of health care reform are disapproving because they don’t think it goes far enough.
OK, then it should be no problem to pass it…