Do you support universal health care?

[angus]

Intersting results.  The most striking aspect is the 16-to-1 favorable vote among Democrats, which may explain why the candidates are clamoring for bragging rights to the best proposal for universal health care.  Also striking is that the vote is so far 23-to-18 in favor overall, which is probably why we're hearing more and more about it, even from Republican candidates as well.  In fact, among the Republicans herein, it's a pretty significant minority (33%) voting in favor.

For disclosure purposes, I'll say that I voted No/other, but then I rant about this often enough that it's easy to guess how I might have voted.

The "others" are voting so far 11-to-4 against, which means that, collectively, "others" are even more opposed to socialized medical care than Republicans.  That is telling as well.  I think it may not bode well for Republicans.  Clearly, moralists and collectivists have long been open to the idea of socialized medicine, but then moralists are already fairly beholden to the Democrat Party, with the exception of those who identify with either the Green or Socialist parties.  Traditionalists, often poor farmers and laborers in the Midwest and Southern states, seem to be warming up to the idea as well, and this may help explain why some GOP candidates are starting to make noises about universal health care.  Individualists, however, probably make up the bulk of the "others", some of whom are presumably Libertarians.  Still, most individualists identify with the GOP more so than with either the Democrats or Libertarians, but the spectre of Republican candidates flying this idea up the flagpole as a way to appeal to populist types in the hinterlands may risk losing some of the individualist/libertarian types within the party over such issues as these.  Just a thought.