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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Health Care support on the rise

Barack Obama's approval rating really seems to have entered into a holding pattern. Every national survey we've done in the last four months has shown his approval fluctuating between 46 and 49%, and his disapproval fluctuating between 46 and 49%. This month he comes down at 47% approving and 48% disapproving.

While Obama's numbers have remained steady, support for health care is on the rise. 45% of voters now say they're for his plan while 49% are opposed. A month ago the spread was 39% in support and 50% opposed.

Dennis Kucinich's flip on the health care vote this morning is symbolic of a broader shift among liberals. Last month 73% said they supported the plan with 19% opposed. Now 89% say they support the plan with only 3% opposed. Whether it's because of the President's increasing visibility on the issue or because liberals finally decided the current bill is as good as they're going to get and better than nothing, there's been a big rise in support since early February.

The shift has come completely with Democratic voters. A month ago 39% of independents said they supported it, now 40% do. A month ago 10% of Republicans said the supported it, and that's now actually down to 8%. But Democratic support has risen from 63% to 76% in the last month. Obama seems to have succeeded in better unifying the party around his goals.

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I doubt that is accurate with regards to independents. I've tried to remind my Senators and Congressman that this health care bill is the reason Virginia has a Republican sweep in our recent elections, why Massachusettes has a Republican in Kennedy's seat, and passing this bill is the death knoll of the Dems come November. I doubt they listen. It seems once elected officials get to DC they become tone deaf. The only cure is to vote them back out.

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Yeah, I think that is Dems being polled. Frankly, the size of Independents has grown.. but do they really behave as INDEPENDENTS is questionable... I think Independents are increasingly behaving like Republicans.. We need some honest look at policies rather than knee jerk reaction to everything that we have seen recently.

If we serve up talking points from one side or the other, we are no different from a party person.

One of the best things that we as INDEPENDENTS can do is provide seasoned judgement and reasoned arguments and ideas and suggestions that are not partisan.
The Reps that I am talking with are saying that they are not getting reasonable input, rather only REACTION from Independents. This is definitely not what we want. We need to be able to influence the Reps in ways that neither party alliant can do. 


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Yeah, I know PPP is a Democrat operation - still, this poll isn't really so good:

His health care plan is also at its highest level of support in a long time with 49% of voters opposing it and 45% in support.

Supprt from what? The pdf file didn't say, and that's still a majority against it. This bill really should just die, it will kill off the Democrat Party if they don't relent now.



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