Newsbusters Mike Bates provides the lamest criticism of poll reporting in quite some time:

That private health insurance companies would still be available to compete with a public option is a major consideration in how Americans answer such questions.

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Contrary to what [CNN's Kiran] Chetry intimated, her own network's poll doesn't show 56 percent simply favoring “some sort of public option,” but rather one that specifically would be in competition with private insurers. She's the one who's confused, not Michael Steele.

That might be a good point if proposed health care reform didn't allow private health insurers to compete with the public option. But it does. So ...