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Well let's be clear what people actually do support. People overwhelmingly want health care reform. And actually polls have shown again and again that people support a government run health insurance alternative (public option), which Obama appears to be reluctant to put into the current bill for whatever reason.
And actually polls have even shown people support full on single payer health care (i.e., government run health care), which the most liberal Dem Congresspeople have never even proposed doing.
What is now unpopular is the current health care bill, but, given the support for these more liberal policies, I think we can say that it's non unpopular because it's too liberal, it's probably unpopular either because it's too centrist/wishy washy - or because people just don't understand what it consists of.
On the second point, the pollster Nate Silver posted a run down of the various components of the current bill and how they poll. Turns out the individual components are mostly popular.
But at the end of the day, I think it would be a good idea for the Dems to pass the bill either way. Because you always get more good press for accomplishing things than doing nothing, and they will have plenty of time to talk about the bill and the positive things it does accomplish in terms of ending recisions, cost containment, etc.