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To: greenspirit who wrote (54499)

10/5/2013 9:13:00 PM

From: FJB

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487

Here is more recent polling data:

realclearpolitics.com

Public Approval of Health Care Law
Polling DataPollDateSampleFor/FavorAgainst/OpposeSpread

RCP Average	9/4 - 10/2	--	40.0	51.1	Against/Oppose +11.1
CBS News	10/1 - 10/2	1021 A	43	51	Against/Oppose +8
FOX News*	10/1 - 10/2	952 RV	36	52	Against/Oppose +16
CNN/Opinion Research	9/27 - 9/29	803 A	38	57	Against/Oppose +19
Quinnipiac	9/23 - 9/29	1497 RV	45	47	Against/Oppose +2
Rasmussen Reports*	9/14 - 9/15	1000 LV	43	53	Against/Oppose +10
ABC News/Wash Post	9/12 - 9/15	1004 A	42	52	Against/Oppose +10
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl	9/5 - 9/8	1000 A	31	44	Against/Oppose +13
USA Today/Pew Research	9/4 - 9/8	1506 A	42	53	Against/Oppose +11

All Public Approval of Health Care Law Polling Data

To: greenspirit who wrote (54499)	10/5/2013 10:41:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 85487

I disapprove, too. I want it much stronger. So do 1/3 of the people who don't like it. We want single payer. This is just a good first step. From CNN: A majority of Americans still oppose the nation's new health care measure, three years after it became law, according to a new survey. According to the poll, 43% of the public says it supports the health care law....Fifty-four percent of those questioned say they oppose the law, also relatively unchanged since 2010. The survey indicates that 35% oppose the health care law because it's too liberal, with 16% saying they oppose the measure because it isn't liberal enough. Right. Let me rephrase this: According to a recent poll, 59 percent of Americans support Obamacare, while 35 percent oppose it. Among supporters, 43 percent support the law as is, while 16 percent think it doesn't go far enough. The way CNN words the question in this poll, they almost have no choice but to say that 54 percent of the public opposes Obamacare. But that's wildly misleading. If you oppose Obamacare solely because you think it should be more generous, then you're not part of the group that's commonly thought of as the opposition: tea partiers, conservatives, Republicans, and so forth. These are the folks who want to repeal Obamacare completely and leave it a smoking husk, and they're the ones most of us think of as the "opposition." If your main problem with Obamacare is that it's not the NHS, you aren't part of that group motherjones.com