Fewer health reform option assumptions: More clarity

Data analyst Nate Silver dissects the badly flawed new Washington Post/ABC News poll and finds that both the public and the polls demand clarity:

From my vantage point, what the poll "proves", if anything, is that specificity will be helpful to the Democrats. They should either insist on the public option or remove it -- but keeping their options open may be doing little more than confusing the public. And the pollsters.