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Health Care Law (Good news for ObamaCare: Opposition drops to 50%)
rasmussen ^ | 10/4/10 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 10/04/2010 7:10:51 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The number of voters who favor repeal of the health care law has fallen to its lowest level since the bill was passed by Congress in late March.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 50% still favor repeal of the bill, including 41% who Strongly Favor repeal.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


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1000 likely voters.

I say: wait until they get their premium increases.

1 posted on 10/04/2010 7:10:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

who says they pay premiums? I bet quite a few of them are welfare and get a great deal of care at little to no charge.


2 posted on 10/04/2010 7:12:10 AM PDT by utherdoul
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To: SoFloFreeper

So scary!


3 posted on 10/04/2010 7:12:10 AM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is quite a drop from the 61% of two weeks ago. Sounds like the sheeple are falling back in love with The Won.


4 posted on 10/04/2010 7:12:41 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I say: wait until they get their premium increases.

Makes sense. For most people who get their insurance through work, the premium hikes won't kick in until the start of the new year. I would imagine that, plus the coming 0bama tax hikes, will serve to increase opposition.

5 posted on 10/04/2010 7:13:24 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: ScottinVA

Sounds more like rigged polls. I don’t think you can believe any of them anymore. They’re using them for “brain washing”.


6 posted on 10/04/2010 7:13:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: SoFloFreeper

When their premiums (premia ?) increase, I think support for Obamacare will only grow. That’s when they will start demanding the govt do something about it.. as in offer an alternative.


7 posted on 10/04/2010 7:15:38 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: ScottinVA

No, but it is election season and repeal has become a partisan issue.
If you are a Democrat, you have been told you cannot be for repeal (even if you were against passage.) Just like the Democrats in the House.

Not all changed their minds on repeal.
Some discovered they aren’t Democrats afterall.


8 posted on 10/04/2010 7:18:28 AM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Premium increases have just started rolling out. The effects are coming in way too early for Obama, but the results will be ugly for Obama Care.


9 posted on 10/04/2010 7:18:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: pnh102
PA citizens are going to get crushed in Jan/2011. Obamacare premiums rising, electricity rate caps expiring (40-50% increase in energy costs) PLUS expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts.

Many households in my area are going to immediately feel $400-600 a month less; and that is not factoring health insurance...

Hope the idiots of this state do it right Nov. 02.

10 posted on 10/04/2010 7:19:15 AM PDT by Michael Barnes (Guilty of being White.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

‘repeal’ is too strong a word. The entire bill doesn’t need to be repealed. I think Palin refers to repealing parts of it. In 2000 pages there has to be some worthwhile things.

So Republicans shouldn’t say ‘repeal’ in a manner that implies the entire bill because that will scare off a good many voters. The bill needs to be trimmed and fixed.


11 posted on 10/04/2010 7:24:26 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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Already we are starting to roll over, just like the dems were hoping we would.

There’s a vast slice of the electorate that is both stupid and easily bought off.


12 posted on 10/04/2010 7:32:13 AM PDT by gthog61
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To: libh8er

With premium increase of 25% coming in 2011, small to middle size employers are going to be forced by economics to consider dropping health insurance. The annual penalty of $2000 per year imposed by Obamacare for not providing employer insurance is considerably less than the $6000 to $8000 per employee cost of providing insurance. People will be screaming for the single payer option when businesses drop health insurance as a benefit. This was part of the master plan. Stay tuned.


13 posted on 10/04/2010 7:34:42 AM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: ScottinVA

Weird how during the summer months when no one supposedly paying attention, the numbers were so high against it, now suddenly that the time of people paying attention to midterms is here, the numbers improve for this government takeover of rationed care...

I don’t believe it.


14 posted on 10/04/2010 7:37:08 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow. I bet the generic ballot will have substantially tightened when it is released today. Yuck!


15 posted on 10/04/2010 7:37:36 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: gthog61
Already we are starting to roll over, just like the dems were hoping we would.

This is my biggest concern, because 0bamaCare has been one of, if the main catalyst of the energy the anti-0bama voters have had going into the November elections. If resistance to 0bamaCare fizzles, we're sunk. It would mean the liberals were indeed right... that, given enough time, Americans will ultimately submit and accept their fate.

16 posted on 10/04/2010 7:39:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: ScottinVA

has been one of, if the main = has been one of the main, if NOT the main...


17 posted on 10/04/2010 7:40:07 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Tennessean4Bush
Wow. I bet the generic ballot will have substantially tightened when it is released today. Yuck!

Recent polls have also shown a growing fondness for 0bama as well. Yuck again!

18 posted on 10/04/2010 7:41:55 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The fact is, traditionally, Dem voters always drift back to the party in October before a Nov election. I expect all of the races will tighten and SOBama’s favorables will go up. The key to winning the Senate and House will be the Enthusiasm Factor — ie, turnout.


19 posted on 10/04/2010 7:42:40 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: frposty
There is nothing in the bill that reduces government interference in the health care field. Therefore there is nothing worthwhile in the bill and the entire thing needs to be thrown in the circular file.
20 posted on 10/04/2010 7:53:44 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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