This IS good news! Clearly, the Democrats are on track, as is the Obama White House and its economic policies.

You make make polls and statistics say anything you want. 83% of people know that.

'Based in Raleigh, N.C., Public Policy Polling is headed by Democratic pollster Dean Debnam.'

Democratic pollster - Well, this certainly explains the bias is this poll against the lead candidate Wargotz. they don't want the R's to have a chance. I'll take the prior day's Rasmussen poll, Mikulski 58 v Wargotz 33 as more reliable. At least Rasmussen isn't an automated telephone poll - wrought eith error.

2014 cannot arrive soon enough.

I don't believe that the majority of Marylanders approve of Obama and his health care overhaul. Those that approve are from heavily democratic counties and those were the people that were interviewed. Statistically speaking there are only 5 or 6 counties out of 24 that are democratic, but they far outnumber the citizens of the other counties, but if you polled the other 18 counties these numbers would be drastically different.

I know I don't approve of Obama and his health care overhaul and neither does anyone else that I know from the state of Maryland.

This poll is biased, just like all the rest and for the Sun to report and tout it just shows how left wing they truly are.

HA HA! I knew MD was a loony leftist stronghold but no way is it as bad as the poll suggests. Red flag #1, Democratic pollster. I want to see how he worded his questions. Red Flag #2, take Balt. City and PG County out and the numbers will do a 180.

The Sun couldn't wait to print these poll results.

This is why I moved from the Great 'TAX/Leftist' State of MD. The problem with Socialism is that you eventually you run out of other peoples' money!

The National Polls show very different results - most respondents dislike the debt Obama has laid on this country. Why doesn't the Sun publish the results of those more accurate polls?

@Thomas

I'm not sure how you can just remove PG county and Baltimore City from a poll of Maryland residents. Whether you are willing to accept it or not, both are part of Maryland and their residents' opinions matter just as much as yours.

As for the questions, you can read them by clicking the link in the story. From what I can tell they look pretty straight forward.

@Katherine

Oh so you and your friends don't support the health care plan. That is clearly not a biased poll...

I'm not sure that your logic of polling the other 18 counties make much sense. Obviously if you pick areas that are liberal or conservative strongholds the results will be skewed one way or the other. This was a poll of the entire state so all counties were polled.

Gee, this is a big surprise coming from the Sunrag. Exactly where did you find the people who "voted" in this poll? Let me guess, Baltimore City, PG Co, Montgomery CO, and of course the MD state death records! Wow, another surprise! Maybe someone who voted in this poll can tell us EXACTLY what it is about O'Bumbs performance that they approve of???? Fat chance that would happen.

This is a joke they polled 569 people and you report that as stastically representing Maryland. that is less then .001 percent of the population. Once again you prove that this paper will report anything positive about the Democrats. when will you do some real reporting. I asked 700 people if they approved of the healthy care plan and 99.9% of them did not.

Joe Ball, how many people do you think Rasmussen polled to get his results? Would you be surprised if I told you it was 500?

I'm curious about the 700 people you asked. Was it at a tea party? Great random sample there.

The majority once wanted slavery as well.

What do you expect in the People's Republic of Maryland with a poll run by The Sun, a newspaper that wouldn't know unbiased if it were to be hit with it in the face?

Actually...those are some pretty crappy poll numbers for President B_O and his health care "overhaul" for a state that has over 2 to 1 Liberals versus Republicans. But of course this is The Sun, where everything Obama and Lib is all rainbows and unicorns.

I've lived in MD since Jan 1969, and have NEVER been polled. The fact that I'm a registered Republican may have something to do with it, and also the fact that I live in Harford County? Pres. Obama hasn't got it right yet, and I seriously doubt if he ever gets it right. I'm concerned when people vote because someone looks like them and not their politics.

Sixty-two percent of the Sun lunchroom think Obama's doing an OK job.

Col. Moorhouse: Except for a four year hitch in the Navy, I have lived in MD since 1931. Since the last Dem for whom I voted was Harry Truman may be the reason I have not been contacted.

The public thinks they are getting something for nothing, but they will just get a lot of managed care from one manager- the govt- which has proved itself to be one of the worst health care managers of benefits ever!!

You wrote that the majority of Maryland voters approve of President Barack Obama's job performance and his health care plan.

You say 569 voters were telephone surveyed. The population of Maryland is approximately 5.8 million people so you say telephoning 0.009 percent of the state residents allows you to headline that the majority of Maryland voters approve of Obamacare?

Then you say Mikulski is favored by 54 percent of the state.

And then you tell us that the poll was conducted by a Democratic pollster Dean Debnam out of Raleigh, N.C.

Gee, I wonder why such results.

What is the breakdown by Baltimore City compared to the rest of the state?

How many Republicans were polled vs. Democrats?

Actually, I am surprised. This is one of the few states where health care reform is fairly popular.

Of course, 2014 will be the big challenge. I hope we don't run out of money before that time.

What a crock of shit. Are you people stupid who in there right
mind would appove of Obamas health care.

What a crock is right. All this negativity for a plan designed to help people such as myself who work everyday yet cannot afford to pay for health care. I suppose we should all just curl up and die.

Shirley,
How do you propose America pays for all this free Obamacare?

Obama has now decreed that insurance companies must provide some screenings free of charge. Who is going to pay for those charges, Shirley?

Shirley, Medicare is going bankrupt so how do you think Obamacare and the country will survive since Obamacare is Medicare's big brother?

Any thoughts of a fiscal nature on Obamacare?

@Cranberry Joe;

It's not a Magical Road Fairy that comes along and fills the potholes on your street free of charge. It's been decreed long before Real Americans® started to worry about government spending (around January 2009) that those pothole-fixin' charges are picked up by United States taxpayer dollars. I'll take a good guess that a lot of American taxpayers that have never been on your road and also I'll bet that some of their tax money still went there.

Americans have long since been able enjoy "free" things like safe infrastructure, clean drinking water and breathable air, the occasional "They tried to kill my daddy" war and healthcare in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. Not all American taxpayers have reaped the benefits of these free things right away, but they're available to them nonetheless.

Medicare incidentally is not going bankrupt. It's not insolvent, where debts exceed assets. The government adjusts Medicare budgets well before the point of insolvency. The Pentagon does the same thing, yet there's no shreiking that only dogs can hear about their near bankrupt status, or suggesting national defense be run by the free market.

So to answer your question, fiscal nature sez American tax dollars are used to pay for "Obamacare" or as its called in literate circles, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A lot of people seem to have missed that a majority of voting American taxpayers wanted to join the rest of the industrialized planet by having some type of healthcare system where doctors make decisions in the best interests of the patients, rather than allowing the free market & profit motives to interfere, paid with tax dollars, whether you use it or not, like it or not.

In answer to Cranberry Joe: I have never expected a free ride from the taxpayers or the goverment. I have always paid for health insurance up until now. Unfortunately, the company I was employed by did a massive RIF. All I want is affordable health care, not a handout. Obviously you are one of those who believe that people like myself don't deserve to exist since I can't afford to pay $800 dollars a month for health care.

Nobody asked me. Who are these sheeple?