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Thursday, 20 March 2014
Obamacare is still less popular than toe fungus
Obamacare is almost 4 years old. And unlike wine, it's not improving with age.
A new Pew Research poll quantifies the failure.
Only 41% of Americans "approve" of Obamacare, and a mere 26% "strongly approve" of it. Meanwhile, 53% of us dispprove, and more than 3/4 of that number strongly disapprove.
As the four-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act approaches, the law remains unpopular with the public. Currently, 53% disapprove of the 2010 health care law while 41% approve of the law.
There is substantially more strong opposition than support for the health care law. Overall, 77% of those who disapprove say they feel this way very strongly (41% of public); 64% of approvers hold this view very strongly (26% of the public).
Across most demographic groups, strong opposition to the law is greater than strong support. Moreover, while 79% of Republicans strongly disapprove of the law, a much smaller share of Democrats (53%) strongly approves of it.
Among young people — who split on the law generally (50% approve, 47% disapprove) — about twice as many say they strongly disapprove (32%) as say they disapprove not so strongly (15%); among approvers, roughly equal shares hold this view strongly (27%) as not strongly (23%).
Most men disapprove of the law (57%) while 39% say they approve. Women are more closely divided with 44% saying they approve and 50% saying they disapprove.
No matter how you slice it, Obamacare is wildly unpopular. Except among partisan Democrats.
There continue to be deep partisan differences over the Affordable Care Act — 72% of Democrats approve of law compared with 37% of independents and just 8% of Republicans.
Interestingly, in the survey's demographic breakdown, Democrats and Independents outnumber Republicans by about 3 to 1. Which makes the overall negative perception even more glaring, because Democrats are the only group still pretending to love Obamacare. If Pew had sampled an equal number of Republicans the results would look even worse.
Remember when Debbie Wasserman Schultz proclaimed that by trumpeting Obamacare
Democrats would sweep the 2014 midterm elections?
Good luck with that Deb.
Posted at 18:15 by Chris Wysocki
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