Support for ObamaCare cratering, hits all-time low
In Rasmussen’s polling on ObamaCare over the past couple of months, more people have disapproved than approved by a margin of about 6-13 points. So the fact that the boondoggle is unpopular is not news. But today’s poll, conducted over the weekend, with half polled before the Saturday night vote in the Senate and half after, shows disapproval by 56-38, a whopping 18 point margin.
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.
Half the survey was conducted before the Senate voted late Saturday to begin debate on its version of the legislation. Support for the plan was slightly lower in the half of the survey conducted after the Senate vote.
Prior to this, support for the plan had never fallen below 41%. Last week, support for the plan was at 47%. Two weeks ago, the effort was supported by 45% of voters.
Intensity remains stronger among those who oppose the push to change the nation’s health care system: 21% Strongly Favor the plan while 43% are Strongly Opposed.
The 18 point margin is somewhat ironic because it was the same margin by which Bob McDonnell beat Creigh Deeds in the Virginia gubernatorial election a couple of weeks ago. That was a landslide of historic proportions. It was also an actual election, not a poll. The people who oppose the Democrats’ takeover of health care are the same people who voted for McDonnell.
So while liberals continue to push for health care reform, we may soon be able to separate them into three distinct groups. There are those from safe liberal districts, like Pelosi, who will never lose reelection and therefore will continue to push the legislation. There are the kamikaze libs from moderate districts who don’t care that they are voting against the will of their constituents and are willing to lose their jobs over the vote. And there are the Democrats who are trying to decide what is best for their constituents, their country, and their career. Those are the ones to whom this poll will matter.
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Its funny how libs talk about doing the will of the people, but do the exact opposite. The Democratic politicians are ignoring a majority of the voters wishes, that health care reform be scrapped in its present form. I think come next elections many Democratic politicians are going to be booted out of office for ignoring doing their duties as public servants.
Remember how the Dems tried to say that the Virginia election wasn’t about Obama? Turns out it was all about Obama.
From CNN.
The Democrats will continue to ignore these signs of public discontent, which were also abundantly clear (and chronicled here) all this year before the elections. You are right, if they thought this year was bad, just wait until next year.
In response to another comment. See in context »place stock in polls in the middle of the sausage making process is just silly. Now explain to me how a filibuster works! You’re shooting blanks her Bill.
These numbers may be accurate but I suspect I’ll wait to see it from someone a bit less biased than Rasmussen.
Still, I think people are growing so sick of the nonsense that the numbers may, in fact, be dropping significantly. if this is the case, what it will ultimately speak to is the failure of the Senate as a democratic institution. The filibuster has perverted the majority rule concept to the point of insanity – whether used by Democrats or Republicans. I think we are just finally sick of it. We’ve seen this movie in California where any issue of substance requires a 2/3 vote in the legislature since Prop 13 made it so. This has led the state to disaster.
I think there is a reasonable chance that should a filibuster do in health care legislation, and it very well may, it may become the end of the filibuster itself. At the least, i think we would see the process modified.
And, with all due respect to the great state of Virginia -and it is a wonderful state- isn’t it maybe gong a bit over top to call the results of an election as a “historic landslide”? Maybe you mean this within the context of Virginia itself. Maybe there never has been so large a spread in that state. We’ve certainly seen it before in California elections.
The Senate is really not “majority rule” by design. That is the House’s purview. Both sides lament the filibuster when it is used against them, but the Senate is supposed to be the place where the passions of the House go to cool. The Senators have more individual parliamentary powers and can stop bills and amendments that House members can only dream of stopping.
On health care in particular, I think the problem is they have bitten off too big a bite and there is obviously not enough consensus among all disparate interests involved. Stuff this big shouldn’t be passed on party line votes. They could do a huge bi-partisan overhaul on a lot of individual issues, but the size and breadth of the existing beast is scaring a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons.
I am not a Californian, so I will defer to you on CA politics, but isn’t it the case that tons of measures get passed by referendum, but there exists no system to balance the payment for the programs? So the general assembly (legislature?) is ordered by the people to increase teachers’ salaries, cut taxes, and pave roads, for example but nobody ever puts up a referendum to cut government services or raise taxes to pay for them. Isn’t that the crux of California’s budget difficulties (that, and the onerous tax and regulatory burdens that are driving people and businesses away)?
As for Virginia, the “historic” I was referring to was Virginia-specific. It was the biggest margin of victory be any Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state’s history.
In response to another comment. See in context »