badgenome said:
Because there were too many Dems who wouldn't vote for a public option. |
Or you could phrase it as "Most Americans didn't want a more 'comprehensive' healthcare reform bill" ...
The majority of Americans wanted healthcare reform bill that was straight forward and focused on eliminating the problems in the current private system, not the destruction of the current system with a public system put in its place. Every Democrat in an "unsafe" seat was worried about what this kind of bill would do to their re-election chances; and even the "watered down" program is far to extreme for most voters in these districts, and the Democrats will lose these seats primarily because they weren't listening to the voters.
