The New Republic, under the leadership of Jonathan Cohn, has been the number one cheerleader for health care reform writ large.
His repeated exhortations for reform has had a similar effect to Paul Krugman of the NYT on the Democratic Party.
It is why this article from the New Republic is oh, so very, very important.
Stanley Greenberg was the pollster who lead the Democratic Party down the lose-56-seats-in-the-U.S.-House path of the spectacular failure of Hillary-care. OK, that is probably an overstatement, but, his polls had a whole lot to do with the Democratic Party pushing all their chips onto the table on Health Care Reform last time around.
Greenberg dusted off his memos to President Clinton and the poll questions he asked back then, and asked them again, now.
In an OH NO MR. BILL moment, the worst case scenario to the polling questions happened again, as Greenberg writes:
