On ABC's This Week, Republican pollster Frank Luntz claimed that voters in Indiana, Nebraska, and Arkansas "do not want" health care reform because of "the cost to the deficit." In fact, recent polling indicates that voters in all three states support or are split on creating the public option -- a key element in health care reform -- and the recently passed House health care reform bill is projected to reduce, not add to, the deficit.

From the November 8 edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

LUNTZ: I feel sorry for Evan Bayh
and for Blanche Lincoln --
senators from Indiana, Arkansas. I know Nebraska, Ben Nelson --

COKIE ROBERTS: Mary Landrieu.

LUNTZ: -- Mary Landrieu of Louisiana -- these
states do not want this legislation. And they don't want it because of the
personal costs and the cost to the deficit. They're conservative states
economically and a lot of senators are going to have to cast some very
difficult votes.