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A new ABC-Washington Post poll found ObamaCare sunk to its lowest popularity
yet: 52 percent opposed, and only 43 percent in favor. ABC mentioned the
poll without fanfare at the end of a Jake Tapper report on Monday’s World
News, and Tapper added this was the health law's "lowest level of popularity
ever." But Tuesday’s Washington Post reported not one sentence on the poll
in the paper – even as they reported in the paper that the same survey
found Obama’s tax-and-unemployment-compensation deal has “broad bipartisan
support.”
This is the same Post that highlighted the news on Page One on October 20,
2009, when they found a “clear majority” in favor of a socialist “public
option” -- amid charges they oversampled Democrats.
The numbers weren't excluded because they arrived late. The Post poll
numbers went up on the website yesterday at about 1 pm, under the headline
“Health care opponents divided on repeal.” That obscured the numbers a bit
, as Cohen found a “slim majority” (not a “clear majority”?) currently
oppose ObamaCare:
Overall, 52 percent of those polled oppose the overhaul to the health care
system, 43 percent are supportive of it. Fully 86 percent of Republicans are
against the legislation; 67 percent of Democrats support it. Independents
divide down the middle, with 47 percent in favor and the same number opposed.
Cohen made no mention of that phrase "lowest level of popularity ever." He
did try to suggest that the individual mandate was wildly unpopular --
implying other parts of ObamaCare are still worth keeping:
Among the general public, the Kaiser poll showed 68 percent supportive of a
repeal of the individual mandate. Of four core components of the health care
law tested in the poll, the individual mandate was the one with the highest
negatives, by far. Seventy percent of all those polled said they held an
unfavorable view of the requirement that everyone carry insurance, including
52 percent who had "strongly unfavorable" opinions.
The omission of the new poll was so stunning, we double-checked. Obviously,
the Post reported Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's win in federal
court, with a ruling that found ObamaCare's individual mandate
unconstitutional, but that story by Rosalind Helderman and Amy Goldstein
never included Post poll numbers -- even as the story ended with the notiong:
Altman, of the Kaiser foundation, said Monday's ruling would, in the long
run, prove less significant to the law's fate than the overall political
climate. "There are going to be a lot of twists and turns," he said. "
Ultimately, if President Obama is reelected in 2012, the law will be pretty
much as it is." A change in administration, he said, could pose the biggest
threat.
So if today's "political climate" is more important than a judge's decision,
where is the Post poll? It looks like a very bizarre case of poll-and-hide. |
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