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...Right, right. No, in fact, there's a huge amount of support among Americans for it, and it actually speaks to this idea - one more question, I have to figure out what it is - this idea that there's a kind of - some corporations talk about now kind of a double dividend, where there's a profit motive, but it also does - gives back to the community. They use this phrase called, like, the triple bottom line, where there's profitability, it's good for the environment, and it's good for the community...
...Rally your friends to support a good cause. Last year bloggers competing in the online equivalent of a walkathon raised more than $270,000 for DonorsChoose.org, which funds public-school teachers' requests for classroom materials. This year's Social Media Challenge starts...
...while they are sounding confident at this stage that the President will have some kind of health-care bill by the end of the year, they are watching carefully to see if there are more signs that they have arrested what they acknowledge has been a slide in public support. What concerns them, they say, is not what happened in August - the near riots at congressional town halls or the lies about "death panels." Instead, it is a quieter and growing public unease that they began seeing in their own polls and in public ones starting early in the summer...
...public's attention off the politicians (including a President whose approval ratings have been edging down) and put it back on the larger goals that Obama is trying to achieve. As a senior White House official explained a few hours before the speech, "When you ask people, 'Do you support the President's health-care plan?' you get something from [even] to slightly negative. When you describe what the President is proposing, you get solid support by a margin of 20 points or more." (Read "Can Pelosi Win Over Wary Dems on Health Care...
...even as Obama expressed his support for the public option, he downplayed its significance, calling it "only a means to [the] end'' and noting that just 5% of Americans were likely to sign up. (Indeed, one factor often overlooked in all the shouting is that under most of the versions of the bill that have been proposed, as well as Obama's own, the majority of Americans who get health coverage through their employer would not be eligible to buy into a public option, or any of the private ones that would be offered under the newly established state marketplaces...