Money Wasted

More often than you'd think necessary you read about someone doing a poll on a question you believed already answered, and again coming up with the already-known answer. It feels like someone redoing the mathematical proof that shows the sum of two and two is indeed four.

So Yahoo News headlines a new USA Today/Gallup poll that shows people don't like President Obama's health care mandate, mostly known as "Obamacare." Why was this poll taken? Hasn't this been abundantly clear for the last year? Did anyone expect (or hope for) different results?