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Not What the (Democratic) Doctor Ordered

By Doug Bandow on 8.16.10 @ 12:01PM

Uh oh. I thought Democratic spin doctors Pelosi and Reid said that the health care bill would grow ever more popular as people learned of all the wonderful provisions. But that doesn't seem to be happening. Oops! Sounds like an example of political malpractice.

According to Rasmussen Reports:

Support for repeal of the health care reform bill is at its highest level in over a month, while the number of voters who believe repeal will be good for the economy has reached a new high.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 60% at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care reform law, while 36% oppose repeal.

Those numbers include 50% who Strongly Favor repeal and 26% who Strongly Oppose it. Platinum Members can see state-by-state results from across the country.

The number that favors repeal is up five points from last week and is the highest level measured since July 1. The number that Strongly Favors repeal also ties the highest level ever - first measured in mid-April.

Overall support for repeal has ranged from 52% to 63% since the law was passed by Congress in March.

What's a poor Democrat to do, with an election approaching and the public still opposed to his or her biggest vote of the session? I guess we will soon find out.

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Purple Lips| 8.16.10 @ 12:18PM

I tell you what the doctor will order come 2011:
A little dose of Senators Lugar, Graham, Collins, Snowe, Brown, Castle (Senator to be), with a pinch of a few Blue Dogs (those that survive). Repeal is dead even before it begins.

ggoblue| 8.16.10 @ 12:32PM

let them rinos walk the plank then...they will lose primaries...barak will become a one man party of NO...democrats have to defend 25 out of 33 senate seats in 2012 so republican takeover is all but guaranteed...

let that rino run over pelosis cliff is what i say...

Finance Guy| 8.16.10 @ 1:34PM

"democrats have to defend 25 out of 33 senate seats in 2012 so republican takeover is all but guaranteed... " Seriously? Democrats will probably lose some of their numbers, but does anyone really think they will lose control of the senate?

Ryan| 8.16.10 @ 1:52PM

I think that it IS wishful thinking at this point, but not outside the realm of impossibility. There pretty much has to be a clean sweep, but we're in a political climate where it may actually happen.

I DO suspect the Dems may lose any semblance of a safe majority.

Purple Lips| 8.16.10 @ 3:49PM

Check out the 25 Senators locations and get back to us. 2012 will probably not be kind to liberal incumbants in either party (Lugar, Schummer, Weber, are just a few). Of course, some Libs are quite safe; I cannot imagine Rhode Island or Conneticut every voting for a conservative. But then again, the GOP probably thought the same in 1932 (Vermont was as conservative as Indiana in those days). Look at Vermont now.

Grzmlyk| 8.16.10 @ 12:28PM

Gee, where are the liberal trolls like Liberal Reader to post inanities about how Obamacare will give everybody in the US fantastic care at a lower cost than those EVIL insurance companies????

Huh. Who would have guessed that "no free lunch" means "no free lunch?"

There goes reality again, intruding on liberal fantasies.

Of course some of them will continue to insist that two and two make whatever they want it to make. But if it goes through, you can bet that even the last of them will stop preening once they, or a loved one, gets sick.

glenny| 8.16.10 @ 4:43PM

Don't worry about whether or not repeal is possible! Just don't fund it (or the 15,000 extra IRS agents to enforce it). glenny

matthew s harrison| 8.16.10 @ 7:16PM

I would suspect that that 36% (ignorant 22 year olds who watch nothing but MTV and a video game screen, and dyed in the blue libtards who might still have jobs) will have their minds changed for them when they realize their first tax bill come January, when they sell their home after January 1 and have a 3.8% federal tax they have to pay out of the minimal profit they may have, and/or when the IRS starts garnishing their paychecks to pay the fees imposed by Kathleen Sebelius and company for non-compliance with the federal mandate that they run out and buy insurance.
Watch that number rise to 95% by January 31, 2011.
Only an idiot-or an idiot who has no desire or will to support himself would ever support such an abomination and attack on individual rights, in formerly the greatest country on earth!