Let's Look at the "Mob"

The Democrats are in full attack mode against the people who show up at town hall meetings to express anger at Democrat plans to socialize the economy. Demonizing them as "mobs" and people whose anger has been manufactured by evil corporations is a dangerous game for the White House and the Democrats.

These numbers should give them caution:

American voters, by a 55 – 35 percent margin, are more worried that Congress will spend too much money and add to the deficit than it will not act to overhaul the health care system, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. By a similar 57 – 37 percent margin, voters say health care reform should be dropped if it adds “significantly” to the deficit.

By a 72 – 21 percent margin, voters do not believe that President Barack Obama will keep his promise to overhaul the health care system without adding to the deficit, the independent Quinnipiac University national poll finds.

American voters disapprove 52 – 39 percent of the way President Obama is handling health care, down from 46 – 42 percent approval July 1, with 60 – 34 percent disapproval from independent voters. Voters say 59 – 36 percent that Congress should not pass health care reform if only Democratic members support it.

Voters are split 39 – 41 percent on whether the President’s health care plan will improve or hurt the quality of health care in the nation, with 14 percent saying it won’t make a difference.

Jim Geraghty adds this about those numbers:

Skepticism of this health care plan goes way, way beyond "the right wing Republican base." Alternatively, the right wing Republican base now amounts to a bit more than half of the voting public.

Do the Democrats really want to demonize more than half the voters? Not a very good strategy for success.