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To: rdkflorida2 who wrote (1005313)	3/10/2017 12:12:11 PM
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Voters Like Congress More Than They Have in Years in Politics FacebookTwitterEmail thisShareThis Related Articles Daily Presidential Tracking Poll GOP Voters Are Happier with Republicans in Congress GOP Voters More Aligned With Trump Than Congress Most Voters Want Congress to Work With Trump Will Trump, GOP Congress Do What’s Best for America? Sign up for free daily updates Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Voters show more faith in Congress today than they ever did during the Obama administration. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 25% of Likely U.S. Voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job. That’s up significantly from 11% in July and the most confidence voters have shown in Congress since 2007. Just 49% now think Congress is doing a poor job, down from 57% in July and the lowest level of pessimism since March 2011. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Prior to this survey, the number who gave Congress positive marks hadn’t broken the 20% mark since May of 2009. When the last new Republican-led Congress arrived in January of 2015, positive reviews inched up to double digits for the first time in over two years and hit a recent high of 16% the following month. The percentage of voters giving the legislators poor marks dropped into the 50s during the early months of 2015 after generally running in the 60s and 70s since mid-2011. (Want a free daily email update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 23-24, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. Just weeks into the new Congress, Republicans are a lot less critical of their congressional representatives, while Democrats are less enthusiastic about theirs. Last July, just 12% of both Republicans and Democrats gave the Congress positive marks. Now 43% of GOP voters rate Congress' performance as good or excellent, compared to only 16% of Democrats. Among unaffiliated voters, positives are up only slightly from 10% last year to 16% now. Voters under 40 are much less critical of the new Congress than their elders are. Seventy-four percent (74%) of black voters think Congress is doing a poor job, compared to 43% of white voters and 54% of other minorities. Lower-income voters are more critical of Congress than those who earn more. Forty-five percent (45%) of voters who Strongly Approve of the job President Trump is doing think Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Eighty percent (80%) of those who Strongly Disapprove of the president's job performance rate Congress’s performance as poor. At the first of the year, Republicans were more likely to identify with soon-to-be-President Trump than with the GOP Congress. Voters aren’t sure if the new Congress will be an improvement on the last one, but most want it to cooperate with Trump as much as possible. Prior to Trump’s inauguration, voters were evenly divided over whether or not Trump and the new Republican-controlled Congress can work together to do what’s best for the American people. Most voters still agree the federal government should only do the things Congress and the president agree on. More voters than ever (74%) agree with Trump's call for term limits for all members of Congress. Additional information from this survey and a full demographic breakdown are available to Platinum Members only.

To: rdkflorida2 who wrote (1005313)	3/10/2017 12:14:08 PM
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Voters Still Put Lower Costs Over Health Insurance Mandate in Politics FacebookTwitterEmail thisShareThis Related Articles Voters Like Congress More Than They Have in Years Voters Want a Replacement If Obamacare Is Scrapped Americans Report Paying More For Health Care Compared to Five Years Ago Many Pass on Medical Checkups, Prescriptions Due to Cost Voters Doubt More Than Ever That Obamacare Will Reduce Health Care Costs Should Taxpayers Help Cushion Spike in Obamacare Rates? Sign up for free daily updates Friday, March 10, 2017 As Congress begins debating ways to change the failing Obamacare system, voters feel more strongly than ever that reducing health care costs is more important than mandating health insurance coverage for everyone. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that in terms of reforming health care, 62% of Likely U.S. Voters feel it is more important to reduce the cost of care. That’s up from a previous high of 59% in January of last year. Thirty-four percent (34%) still place more importance on making sure that everyone has health insurance, but that’s a new low. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Thirty-six percent (36%) continue to believe, however, that the government should require every American to buy or obtain health insurance. Fifty percent (50%) oppose Obamacare’s health insurance mandate, while 14% are undecided. Support for the individual mandate in regular surveys over the last several years has run from a high of 44% in November 2014 to a low of 32% in October of the following year. As there have been for years on nearly all questions related to the national health care law, however, there are wide partisan differences of opinion. (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on March 8-9, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. Only 12% of voters want to leave Obamacare alone, but 88% say it’s important for Congress and the president to have some sort of replacement program in place if they repeal it. Eighty-two percent (82%) of Republicans and 64% of voters not affiliated with either major political party think it is more important to reduce the cost of health care. Just 42% of Democrats agree. Most Democrats (54%) say making sure that everyone has health insurance is more important. But then Democrats by a 49% to 36% margin believe the government should require every American to buy or obtain health insurance. Only 25% of Republicans and 32% of unaffiliated voters share that view. Those under 40 are stronger supporters of the individual mandate than their elders are, but younger voters also feel most strongly that reducing health care costs is more important. Blacks support the insurance mandate more than whites and other minority voters do. While most whites and other minorities rate cost reduction as more important than the mandate, blacks are almost evenly divided on the question. Even among voters who believe the government should require every American to buy health insurance, 41% believe reducing health care costs is more important. That compares, however, to 79% of those who oppose the insurance mandate. While most Americans say their personal health hasn’t changed much over the past five years, most are paying more for health care now. Many Americans continue to feel the pinch of high health care costs. Thirty-six percent (36%) say they have postponed medical checkups or procedures to save money in the last six months, while 21% have not filled a recent prescription because the cost was too high. Most voters have long said Obamacare is more likely to raise health care costs than to reduce them. Citing financial losses, several major health insurers have pulled out of the state exchanges set up under the health care law, leaving many Americans with fewer insurance options and higher rates. But voters don’t think taxpayers should help offset any jump in rates they may experience because of the exit of these companies. Additional information from this survey and a full demographic breakdown are available to Platinum Members only.