Town Hall Protests and Public Opinion on Healthcare Reform

Here's a recent article by Anthony DiMaggio, an ISU alum and Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Chicago who currently teaches various courses in the Politics and Government Department. In it, he discusses the factors that may be influencing current, rapid shifts in public opinion about healthcare reform in the United States, including especially the Town Hall protests and media coverage of them and the issue more generally.

He also touches on the role of public opinion polls themselves play in "limiting debate" about healthcare reform through their choice of which policy options to include in their questionnaires -- a point closely related to one Jimmy raised in his presentation about public opinion on same sex marriage in class today.