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A new Gallup poll shows that, at best, Democrats did nothing to advance public support for their health care proposals during the August recess. According to the poll, a slight plurality of 39 percent said they would advise their member of Congress to vote against a health care bill compared to 37 percent who said they would ask them to vote for it. At the beginning of recess, 36 percent said vote against and 35 percent said vote for, so very little change. Remember, flash back to before the August recess, and this was being built up as the crucial phase for the health care debate, when Obama was going to have to build support for an initiative that was floundering. Now that he hasn't been able to move the ball forward in over a month, we're being told that the big event is really tomorrow's speech.