Rasmussen: ObamaCare support hits new lows
posted at 12:55 pm on August 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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The public campaign for ObamaCare has slipped to a new low, with a greater majority now opposing it, according to the latest polling from Rasmussen. Likely voters now oppose it 53%-42%, when six weeks ago a slim majority favored the plan. The intensity of opposition has increased greatly, while the intensity of support has diminished:
Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that opposition to the plan has increased to 53%, up nine points since late June.
More significantly, 44% of voters strongly oppose the health care reform effort versus 26% who strongly favor it. Intensity has been stronger among opponents of the plan since the debate began.
The big problem for Democrats remains the independent voters. They lost that bloc at about the time that the CBO began issuing its analyses of the various versions of ObamaCare, and that trend has only gotten worse for Obama and Pelosi. Sixty-two percent of unaffiliated likely voters oppose the bill, and now a majority (51%) strongly oppose it. The intensity of opposition among unaffiliated voters holds a great danger for Democrats looking to get re-elected in 2010 to their House and Senate seats.
The intensity of opposition has increased among practically all demographics. Forty-four percent of all likely voters now strongly oppose ObamaCare, which goes to 49% of men and 39% of women — who oppose it overall by 50%-43%, losing a key demographic. While the youngest voters strongly favor ObamaCare by 57%, the numbers flip for all other age demos: 51% strongly oppose in 30-39, 58% in 40-49, 43% in 50-64, and 46% among seniors. The same holds true for income demos. Among the lowest-income earners, 51% strongly support, but then strongly oppose gets majorities or strong pluralities for the other brackets: 38% for $20-40K, 56% for $40-60K and $60-75K, 40% for $75-100K, and 55% for $100K+, a surprising result as this has been swinging for Obama until now.
Majorities also now say that passing the bill will make health-care more expensive (51%) and lower quality (51%). Among independents, those numbers are 49% and 59%, respectively, which underscores the problems Obama has in convincing America to support this bill. If most people believe it will make medical care cost more and patients to get lower-quality care, why would they support it?
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These words are being eliminated from some school books:
American (too geographically chauvinistic)
Able-bodied (insults the handicapped peeps)
Teenager (the delicate flowers are now known only as adolescents)
Poor – (makes people living below the poverty line feel bad)
Hmmmm – I grew up American (no hyphen), quite poor and was an able bodied teenager with a JOB (a 4 letter word). I am scarred, man, & liberals have now informed me why.
Ris4victory on August 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Wait, he threatened TXmomof3?
Where?
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Are there any bannings that happened today?
FontanaConservative on August 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM
If ever a Prez earned a bullet, it was Lincoln.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM
But weren’t there worse?
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM
O/T: Speaking of town hall meetings: Dem Rep Who Opposes Photo ID To Vote Is Now Requiring Photo ID For Town Halls
VibrioCocci on August 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM
What about Jackson?
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Yeah. Let me find it. HonetSting was there, too, She may remember.
Are there any bannings that happened today?
FontanaConservative on August 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Not yet. But, then again, we don’t have too many Trolls left. How can you defend the indefensible?
kingsjester on August 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I’m a little tired. I can’t tell if your agreeing or disagreeing with me. No problem either way.
FontanaConservative on August 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM
He illegally raised an army against southerners who only wanted to exercise their right to secede.
He imprisoned thousands of political opponents.
He closed hundreds of newspapers that opposed him.
He sanctioned total war against civilian populations.
Yeah, he was that bad.
Burn in hell.
guntotinglibertarian on August 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM
So, he seems Rooseveltian…
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I can’t fault Africa for starting the Western slave trade oh so many years ago. Zeitgeist, you know. But for being one of the few places on earth that still buys and sells human beings, I condemn Africa. I imagine you do, too. Perhaps you could direct your enmity — and your profanity — at the places in the world where slavery still exists. Seems like a more productive use of all that rage.
Rational Thought on August 11, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I think it was on the specter thread….
HornetSting on August 11, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I don’t know how much worse it can get, than raising an army against your brethren.
Lincoln catalysed a cancer in America. “To the victor the spoils”, “the winners write history” etc…but to me, Lincoln was a tyrant that deserved his end.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I don’t think Lincoln was the first to do this.
I thought it was somewhere around Andrew Democracy for the Masses Jackson.
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:49 PM
France has a population of 61 million and has had “universal” health care for the past 64yrs and they cannot afford it. They to are rationing. England has a population of 51 million and they have had “universal” health care for over 61yrs and they to are rationing health care. Canada has a population of a little more than 10% (33 million) of the American population and Canadians in need of critical care are fleeing to the United States in droves.
Combined these three nations (England, France, Canada) have over 168 yrs of “universal” health care experience and they all have decided that the only way the can maintain this lie of “universal” health is to enforce strict rationing.
Initially they all promised to do the same “wonderful” things that president Obama is now promising the American people. They promised to maintain the highest level of health services; cut cost and make health care available to everyone. So far they haven’t been able to fulfill any one of those promises.
If these nations with populations much smaller than America, and with so many years experience administering “universal” health care have decided that rationing is the only way to go, what chance does Barack Obama have of the pulling of this “miracle” he is now promising the American people? I say zero!
RMR on August 11, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I think we’re agreeing :)
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM
That is so on-target. Lincoln is revered by a populace who have no idea how thorougly he shredded the Constitution and caused the slaugher of hundreds of thousands of people who merely had the audacity to disagree with him
Ogabe dreams of being the next Lincoln.
guntotinglibertarian on August 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM
But, I will agree that the GOP would be best not to go back to Lincolnian Republicanism.
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Sure. Democracy is arguably the most insidious cancer of all.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:52 PM
HornetSting on August 11, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I’m often reminded of English Bob in “Unforgiven”, when he says “Why not shoot a president?”
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Great Britain is collapsing under the weight of their “free” healthcare. Listen, the only thing that makes sense is to discontinue entitlements. Otherwise SOMEONE is going to have to pay, and WE DON’T HAVE THE MONEY. Bite the bullet, cut the sh*t and pay for grandma out of our own pockets. We must have tort reform, portable insurance, get out of the way and let free markets work. It’s the only way.
marklmail on August 11, 2009 at 4:55 PM
:)
FontanaConservative on August 11, 2009 at 4:55 PM
OK… I’m out… if you don’t hear back from me, you know I’ve encountered a gun caring tranny named Tera-frica.
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM
see ya
FontanaConservative on August 11, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I love that film, too.
But do be careful, Limey….I enjoy your comments, but you’re straying too close to the banhammer.
guntotinglibertarian on August 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I’m sure Obama today using the failures of the Post Office to defend ObamaCare should start turning around the polls.
Chuck Schick on August 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Terry,
Your president choked on the race card when he called the policeofficer ’stupid.’ Gates is an ass and 0 is an ass.
The race card is off the table.
tessa on August 11, 2009 at 5:17 PM
If ever a Prez earned a bullet, it was Lincoln.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM
But weren’t there worse?
If ever a Prez earned a bullet, it was Lincoln.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM
But weren’t there worse?
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM
What about Jackson?
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I don’t think there were any worse until Obama. He is trying to finish what Lincoln started. Martial law and total disregard for the constitution.
duff65 on August 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Your grandparents were lucky. There’s practically a ten-foot waiting line even for the menial jobs now, and the factory work has all been automated.
Dark-Star on August 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM
That’s going to leave a mark. Also, he can’t continue to deny his support for single payer. Every time he does that, the video of his earlier comments and speeches gets thousands of more hits. When people decide he’s lying about that, they’re going to wonder what else he is lying about.
At some point, the Obama administration is going to have to deal with his earlier comments on single payer in a forthright manner. Attacking the people who post the video isn’t going to cut it. Neither is claiming that his remarks were taken out of context. I’m not sure what else he can do other than claim he’s grown in his appreciation of the problem and no longer supports what he supported in the past.
The problem with that is he would immediately alienate his base who strongly favor single payer and support any means of getting there, including stealth.
I just don’t know how Bambi squares that circle.
PackerBronco on August 11, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Methinks secession is slightly more extreme than a mere disagreement. Have any opinion of Lincoln you want, but when you shade the truth in that manner it only makes one question your honesty.
PackerBronco on August 11, 2009 at 6:35 PM
The President smells fishy, he’s starting to flounder.
yoda on August 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Lincoln took the same view of secession that King George did. It was evil tyranny in revolutionary times, and evil tyranny in Lincoln’s time.
Lincoln should be condemned, not celebrated. He betrayed everything the Founders stood for.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM
People with high medical bills also support this, which is understandable.
I can’t figure out why these hospitals are intent on trying to get blood from a stone (ex IRS agents maybe?).
Why not work out a deal where a person pays what they can? Gee, maybe even write off the care…what are they going to do, repossess the patient?
I don’t like the idea of placing a $ on human beings, though there certainly are costs involved, but I believe them to be rather artificial and inflated and they get away with it due to their lobbying and graft to politicians-a virtual monopoly. Many doctors out there aren’t getting all that much from these health care systems and insurance companies, just as all lawyers don’t qualify to be in Grisham novels…that is, only a few are filthy rich.
But a lot of this can be solved by changing rules and regulations, not by spending a gazillion dollars of OUR money. Whatever happens, those making money off of health care now will make far more with Uncle Sam supporting them and calling the shots.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 11, 2009 at 6:45 PM
They’ll do what they do right now….charge the rest of us more.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Vote against Obamacare!
http://news.aol.com/article/angry-crowd-at-arlen-specter-town-hall/609021
Vote is right below article.
True_King on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Yoda, now that was clever! Thanks for the laugh….
chai on August 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM
His public support will keep sinking…
Conservative Samizdat on August 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Is anyone surprised by this? He is so one-term!
janejumbomargarita on August 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM
The President’s most excellent adventure continues in spite of the messes he leaves behind.
The fat lady is waddling toward the podium, but she’s not yet even warmed-up for Obama’s swan-song. Don’t be surprised if she is detained and pepper-sprayed by the mainstream media before she gets there.
Never underestimate the massive power of the uninformed.
Stuart Lee on August 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM
IT IS DEFINITELY A WHITE THING
BEHOLD THE TRUE BELIEVERS
http://la-gun.com/email/manning/
MRMIKE on August 12, 2009 at 11:41 PM
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