Americans back public option almost 2-to-1

To hear the booger-eater contingent at Free Republic talk, you'd think America was on the brink of a conservative revolution.

But this is a bluff, and we're calling it.

For reasons unknown, Quinnipiac University - like Rasmussen - is an outlier among pollsters. Quinnipiac usually oversamples Republicans to such a degree that one has to wonder if their polls aren't of Steve Forbes fan newsgroups.

But even Quinnipiac can't completely ignore the GOP's current dire straits. Quinnipiac has a new detailed poll that shows not only crumbling GOP support - but also growing support for health care reform that includes a public option.

Despite Quinnipiac's perennial oversampling of Republicans, its new poll shows Americans support the public option 61% to 34% (with the remainder undecided). With that in mind, actual support for it must be well over 70%.

The trends over time though may be more significant. This poll shows the Republicans get their lowest grades since Obama was elected. Voters have a 53% to 25% unfavorable view of the GOP - which is even worse than the 52% to 36% unfavorable rating the Republicans had last November.

Only 29% of voters think congressional Republicans are even acting in good faith.

All this while the Democrats bleed support too. But while the Democrats lose backing, the Republicans are losing theirs at least as quickly - and didn't have as much to spare from the get-go.

Arrogance of power doesn't pay.

(Source: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1382)