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 {{footnote/target|2}} http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/22/rel5a.pdf and http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/22/cnn-poll-americans-dont-like-health-care-bill/?fbid=1AOWVNbJBup via {{wikipedia|Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Public_opinions_and_views}} -- but note how CNN lumps the "too much" votes in with the "not enough" votes to conclude that "59 percent of those surveyed opposed the bill". It strikes me as [[issuepedia:Interpretive framing|a bit of a stretch]] to interpret ''wanting more'' of something as being equivalent to ''opposing'' it.
-One wonders what the results would have been had this question been asked in the earlier polls -- how much of that a-bit-more-than-half opposition was real and how much was merely ''framed'' as opposition?
+One has to wonder what the results would have been had that question been asked in the earlier polls: how much of that a-bit-more-than-half opposition -- now being framed as support for ''repealing the reform altogether'' -- was opposition ''in the hope of getting something better passed?''
 {{footnote/target|3}} http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/12/27/rel17h.pdf via {{wikipedia|Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Public_opinions_and_views}}</let>