Poll: Americans by a huge margin want Repubs to drop efforts to repeal Obamacare

[mercury14]

Vette and AJ, call your office, stat!!! Time for some new spin guys.

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld President Obama's health-reform law, a new poll suggests most people want the law's opponents to drop their repeal efforts and move on to other problems.

In the latest survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 56 percent of respondents said they prefer Obamacare opponents "stop their efforts to block the law and move on to other national problems," while 38 percent said they prefer those opponents "continue trying to block the law from being implemented."

Kaiser, a nonprofit, independent foundation that studies health policy and opinions, polled 1,239 adults beginning last Thursday, when the Supreme Court upheld Obama's health law under Congress's taxing power.

Predictably, responses broke down on partisan lines, but independents who do not lean toward either party also preferred Obamacare critics drop their repeal push by a margin of 51 percent to 35 percent. Respondents favored the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law by a margin of 47 percent to 43 percent, Kaiser found.

http://news.yahoo.com/poll-most-want-obamacare-opponents-move-191724504--abc-news-politics.html

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You keep after it Sparky...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2012/CNN_healthcare_0702.pdf



You're "winning."

 

[unregistered]

 

[mercury14]

Bullshit! You mean the news media wants to move on.

The news media is making a killing on the story. Are you saying they want the story to go away so they can make less money?

 

[mercury14]

You keep after it Sparky...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2012/CNN_healthcare_0702.pdf



You're "winning."

All you have these days is a poll where it's within the margin of error makes it about even? And you don't think your policy position is in trouble? Support for Obamacare is increasing since it's been settled and it looks like America is getting tired of your shit.

 

[MeeMie]

More than half of the country — 52 percent of American voters — believe that Obamacare should be repealed.



“That number hasn’t changed much over the past week. In fact, it hasn’t changed much over the past two years,” said Rasmussen, “From the day the law was passed, a majority of American voters have said we want to see it repealed. And there’s really not much that would change that,” he said. “The support has been so consistent.”

 

[mercury14]

More than half of the country — 52 percent of American voters — believe that Obamacare should be repealed.



“That number hasn’t changed much over the past week. In fact, it hasn’t changed much over the past two years,” said Rasmussen, “From the day the law was passed, a majority of American voters have said we want to see it repealed. And there’s really not much that would change that,” he said. “The support has been so consistent.”

Rasmussen isn't accurate. They openly admit their methodology skews conservative and all you can muster is a little 52% poll.

 

[MeeMie]

Rasmussen is more accurate than the spin being fed to you by ObamaMedia.

Other polls agree:

52 Percent Favor Repealing Obamacare‎


Swing-State Voters Want Obamacare to Be Repealed by a margin of 4 to 1


By a margin of 15 points (53 to 38 percent), registered voters in those key states think it was “a bad thing” that President Obama’s signature legislation was passed.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Rasmussen is more accurate than the spin being fed to you by ObamaMedia.

Other polls agree:

52 Percent Favor Repealing Obamacare‎


Swing-State Voters Want Obamacare to Be Repealed by a margin of 4 to 1


By a margin of 15 points (53 to 38 percent), registered voters in those key states think it was “a bad thing” that President Obama’s signature legislation was passed.

Why aren't you linking to these polls? I wonder if I can find something differe — OH SNAP:


73 Percent Now Believe Obamacare Is Not As Bad As They Were Led To Believe Previously

While Still Hazy On The Mandate, 67 Percent Of Americans Feel Good About Obamacare Giving Them Better Control And Access To Live Longer


Damn. Looks like you lose, Toulouse.

 

[MeeMie]

Obama’s Pyrrhic Victory


Barack Obama won the battle, but will lose the war. The Supreme Court decision makes Obamacare the central issue in the 2012 election, just like it was in the 2010 election. And we know how that turned out.

The Court has sustained the individual mandate. That imposes on us a mandate: To defeat Obama and take the Senate. Now that is the only way we can kill this horrible law.

Public opinion has rejected this law for two years now by about the same margin: 40% support; 55% oppose.

While the Court decision may give the law a short term positive bump, the underlying reality of the costs of the program and the increases in everyone’s health insurance rates it is already triggering will eliminate any near term gain. Ultimately, it will still be 40-55 against the law.

Right now, presidential polls show Romney and Obama both in the mid-40s. The single most unpopular thing Obama has done is the health care law. Now it is going to be the lynchpin issue. It means that the election itself will increasingly be polarized around opinions of the health care law – a fifteen point loser for the Democrats.


In a real sense, the Supreme Court did not let Obama off the hook by striking down the law. Now he will have to defend it during the election.


Remember what this law does. It requires everyone to spend upwards of 7 percent of their income on health insurance or pay a fine of several thousand dollars. Neither is an attractive alternative for the young and the poor who are the president’s political base. And, with the expansion of Medicaid rejected by the Court, the government will not be there to help them.

In 2010, Democrats running for Congress (most of whom lost) did not even attempt to defend Obamacare. They put as much distance between themselves and the law as they could. But now, neither Obama nor his Senate and House candidates will have that option since the Supreme Court has kicked the football back into political play.

The rejection of the Medicaid expansion is huge. This mandate – which would have quadrupled the Medicaid population in some states (like Texas) would have forced all states to pass income taxes and required those with them already to raise them substantially. It required coverage of about a quarter of the country under Medicaid, something the states cannot afford. Some saw it as a way to equalize the north and the south in taxes, eliminating the competitive advantage the south has long enjoyed.

As an American, I would have rather seen the individual mandate thrown out.

As a partisan, I’m thrilled that we still have the issue to beat Obama with.

By Dick Morris on June 28, 2012

 

[about_average]

You keep after it Sparky...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2012/CNN_healthcare_0702.pdf



You're "winning."

One page of a poll?
The results of the full poll shows:

Thursday's landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the country's health care law appears to have had exactly zero impact on the presidential election so far, and has produced virtually no change in opinions on President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney

But according to the poll, which was conducted in the four days following the high court's health care ruling, there's been a surge in enthusiasm by Democrats nationwide, and registered voters say that Obama would handle health care better than Romney

In a general election showdown between the president and the presumptive GOP nominee, 49% of registered voters nationwide say that if the November election were held today, they would vote for Obama, with 46% saying they'd vote for Romney

The survey indicates that Romney clearly has a big advantage in some of those 15 [battleground] states, but the data does not indicate which states he is currently winning or how big that advantage may actually be. Neither candidate needs to win all 15 of those states in order to win the general election, so the aggregate results from all 15 states do not forecast an Obama loss or a Romney victory.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...has-not-impacted-race-for-white-house-so-far/

So pretty much a dead heat.

 

[trysail]

News Flash !!

Read All About It !!




Poll: Americans by a huge margin want free lunches

 

[MeeMie]

Polls pretty consistent with Rasmussen's

CNN:
Repeal = 51%
Keep = 47%

Reuters:
Repeal = 52%
Keep = 48%

Gallup:
Repeal = 42%
Keep = 38%



Despite the minute post-ruling bump, Obama’s campaign and White House have sought to put the health care fracas behind them.

FAT CHANCE of that happening.


Meanwhile ...

Romney Rakes in Money After Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care
Romney raises $5.5M after health ruling
Fund-raising flurry after Supreme Court ruling
Mitt Romney's fundraising spikes after Supreme Court decision





Yeah, the loonie spin machine can't squash those real facts.

The majority of taxpayers want ObamaCare repealed and replaced with a better solution.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Baxter:
Repeal = 38%
Keep = 42%

Jessup:
Repeal = 48%
Keep = 52%

Loehmann:
Repeal = 46%
Keep = 54%

hmmm pretty close yeppers

 

[RobDownSouth]

Baxter:
Repeal = 38%
Keep = 42%

Jessup:
Repeal = 48%
Keep = 52%

Loehmann:
Repeal = 46%
Keep = 54%

hmmm pretty close yeppers

<Vettemode>
But....but....RASMUSSEN!
</Vettemode>

 

[Wok]

Good luck on the repeal effort.

 

[TorontoBoyWest]

<VetteMode>

The polls in which the country does not want to repeal are obviously untrue partisan lies.

THe polls for repeal are obviously the true sense of what America wants, and are obviously themselves not partisan.

<VetteMode>

 

[RobDownSouth]

<VetteMode>

The polls in which the country does not want to repeal are obviously untrue partisan lies.

THe polls for repeal are obviously the true sense of what America wants, and are obviously themselves not partisan.

<VetteMode>

Hmmm.....I'm thinking we need a "Vettemode" thread!

 

[TorontoBoyWest]

Hmmm.....I'm thinking we need a "Vettemode" thread!

That wouldn't send the him and his band of merry men apopletic at all........

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

So after the right wing said Obama should have been spending time creating jobs, and not on healthcare, the ring wing now wants to spend their time on health care and not creating jobs.

 

[trysail]

They're all for it.........

provided that somebody else pays for it.​

 

[phrodeau]

So after the right wing said Obama should have been spending time creating jobs, and not on healthcare, the ring wing now wants to spend their time on health care and not creating jobs.

They want to waste government resources and money pursuing a repeal, rather than spending down the national debt.

 

[coachdb18]

http://www.paigeburkes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ball-chain1-300x290.jpg

Obama now must deal with the fact, it is in fact a TAX!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Obama now must deal with the fact, it is in fact a TAX!

It's a freeloader tax. Anyone taking personal responsibility for their health care will not be charged the tax. Are you covered under health insurance right now?

 

[DonovanCrane]

I know I'm in a minority, but I think the gov't needs to get out of the nanny business. Let people handle their own insurance needs. Let people decide who they want to marry. Let them decide if they want to take the precaution of wearing a damned seat belt. Following the current trajectory of government legislation to "protect" us from our own negligence, recklessness, and so forth, eventually, we'll have no choices left. Unhealthy foods and drinks will be controlled substances. You'll need to get camping gear registered and inspected before you can go out with it and enjoy the wilderness. Are we really such an incompetent species that we need a government mandate to dictate for us how to live our lives and look after our welfare and that of our families?

I've long resisted the right's assumption that Obama and his administration exhibit socialist tendencies, but as time progresses, I'm coming more and more to see what they mean. Does that mean the right is any better? Of course not! Liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, the only sure thing about any election is that some asshole will end up in office.

That said, every one of these polls only reflects the opinions of those who were both offered to participate and chose to do so. Of course, I'm sure that nobody would distort the facts in a political story, since everybody in politics is perfectly open and honest...