Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Notable
and Quotable: Obamacare Is Even More Unpopular Now than in 2010
October 30, 2012
Preface: Since I started this blog in November 2006,
I have often criticized Obamacare and pointed to its unpopularity Among the
American public. The article below
confirms my reading of the political tea leaves. How big a role this unpopularity will not be
known until the exit polls after the election are evaluated. In the meantime, Romney might be smart to repeat his pledge
to start to repeal Obamacare on the day
he takes office.
“According to newly
released polling from Rasmussen Reports, by a margin of 15
percentage points (54 to 39 percent), likely voters now support the repeal of
President Obama’s centerpiece legislation. In the first three polls taken in
the wake of the House’s passage of Obamacare (on March 21, 2010), Rasmussen
showed that likely voters then favored repeal by margins of 13 points (55 to 42
percent), 12 points (54 to 42 percent), and 12 points (54 to 42 percent).
Cementing Obamacare would be the principal
focus of Obama’s second term.”
“The repeal of Obamacare is now
supported by men (by 24 points), women (by 7 points), voters between the ages
of 40 and 64 (by 22 points), seniors (by 32 points — and better than 2-to-1),
Republicans (by 75 points — and better than 7-to-1), independents (by 9
points), those who make less than $20,000 annually (by 15 points), those who
make between $20,000 and $40,000 (by 18 points), those who make between $40,000
and $60,000 (by 12 points), those who make between $60,000 and $75,000 (by 35
points — and better than 2-to-1), those who make between $75,000 and $100,000
(by 12 points), those who make $100,000 or more (by 3 points), those who work
for private companies (by 6 points), those who are entrepreneurs (by 28
points), those who are retired (by 30 points), those who didn’t graduate from
high school (by 49 points — and better than 3-to-1), those who graduated from
high school but haven’t attended college (by 51 points — and better than
2-to-1), those who went to college but haven’t graduated (by 29 points), and
those who graduated from college but haven’t attended graduate school (by 8
points).”
“The repeal of Obamacare is opposed
by voters under the age of 40 (by 4 points), Democrats (by 40 points — and
better than 2-to-1), government employees (by 3 points), and those who have
attended graduate school (by 10 points) — in other words, by Obama’s core
constituency.”
“The more often Mitt Romney mentions
Obamacare in these closing days (on the stump and especially in TV ads), the
more likely he is to become the next president of the United States”
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