A new National Public Radio/Kaiser Foundation/Harvard poll on S-CHIP has been released, and pollster.com
has a summary. The results are somewhat different from the USAToday/Gallup
cited by Randy Kuhl. When asked about the possibility of S-CHIP leading to people dropping private insurance, 65% said still favored S-CHIP expansion. 64% said they supported the veto override, and 52% said they weren't concerned about S-CHIP expansion leading to government-run health care. 35% said they would be less likely to support their Member of Congress if he or she voted to sustain the veto.
The difference in the two surveys is in the phrasing of the questions. This shows that one poll by itself proves very little, a lesson that all of us should remember when it comes to polls in the 29th next year. The full detail on the NPR poll is
here [pdf], and the USAToday/Gallup detail is
here.
In other news, the Hornell Evening Tribune
carries a money roundup today, calling the money race "neck and neck".
Finally, my inability to punch in a 5-digit code correctly prevented me from covering the Massa press conference yesterday.