Is the expansion of Medicaid taking a turn for the worse? … The poll, conducted by Christopher Newport University’s Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy, found a majority opposed to expansion, 53% to 42%. Two months earlier, in February, the same poll reported majority support, 56% to 38%. That represents an astounding 29-point swing in public opinion — from an 18-point margin in favor to an 11-point margin opposed. …
Before looking into the details of the poll, we should immediately recognize that opinion changes of that magnitude tend to take years to happen, absent some immediate crisis or national event dominating the news media. That it supposedly occurred in a two-month period should immediately raise our skeptical attennae. CONT.
David W. Moore, iMediaEthics