I doubt that. How many people honestly care if Pluto is a planet it or not? If your job involves the planets, maybe you'd care. Other than that the 3rd graders who care would celebrate because they'd have one less planet to memorize.
I think it'd make much bigger press with adding planets than subtracting one.
After reading a lot more about it, the decision is (as suspected) mainly motivated by three things:
1. Whatever the decision is, it HAS TO include Pluto, as otherwise we will receive any amount of hate mail and suffer many other unpleasant things.
2. As we need some scientific basis, we cannot simply state that we declare the current ones planets and leave it at that.
3. There is so much disagreement about what makes something into a planet (except for the one posted above, which isn't simple enough), that the best way to get a consensus is to make the definition as broad as possible, because all the voting astrophysicists want to make their stamp on history by discovering and naming their own planet.
Although with more than a hundred planets, probably not many people will care who discovered and named which one.
And as they made Pluto head of it's own subspecies, nobody is angry, we can disregard planetoids and Plutonians in a few years time as real planets, be back with the eight real ones and make everyone happy.
The only thing this doesn't do is actually give a good definition of what makes something into a planet.
Edit:
nice linky of a flyby of all the new planets.
