It's been large, but it's premature to act now because of the state of the economy, which preoccupies people in the know. Obama's not waiting, and has dispatched his campaign foot soldiers to make household, etc., visits (in person is better than on-line, as was true with campaigning in 2008), but this seems to be reckless if not also impatient or even conceited. Plus the effort (in whatever form) is clumsy. Why don't they not only wait for economic improvement first (the intelligent, mature thing to do, when it becomes more propitious), and they try for what is not only simpler (i.e., better) than the current piecemeal, and “transparently insidious” goal of a public “option” (with fake “free market” choice claims to follow to support public shifting to public from private sources), but to go straight to “Medicare for All”? (Not only is this a vast increase in spending any way it is done, which should wait for economic improvement, but even more, the problem of large new taxes to pay for it must be presented and solved.)

It's a large proportion of the public that wants health care reform, and this will last in strength (persist) after the economy improves (which is when logically and properly it should _then_ be addressed).

I tend toward optimism, that if given the chance and friendly tools, people will contribute. But you never know! Sometimes people only want to complain – they don't actually want anything to be done.