Handy Andy

I don't read Andrew Sullivan much these days. He seems to have stopped trying. For instance, look at this short bit entitled "The Landscape Shifts" where he quotes a link:

This is an interesting development:

Americans by 51-37 percent in this latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say they’d rather see a plan pass Congress without Republican support, if it includes a public option based on affordability, than with Republican backing but no such element.

I understand Sullivan wants the public option, but this is not interesting. It's not even a development. It's easy enough to ask questions so that the majority will support a public option--polls have been doing it for years. Most people aren't following the health care debate that closely, so if you ask, in essence, "would you like better stuff offered by the government, even if one party opposes it?" the answer is obvious.

If Sullivan's been following the issue, he's aware of this. The poll in question doesn't represent the slightest shift in public opinion, so why is Sullivan pretending it does?