Poll: No Blame if Court Nixes Health Care Law

Yahoo ^ | 6/05/12 | Margot Sanger-Katz

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Poll: No Blame if Court Nixes Health Care Law
By Margot Sanger-Katz | National Journal – 11 hrs ago

Even though President Obama fought for passage of the landmark 2010 health care law, very small minorities say their attitudes about him would change one way or the other should the Supreme Court strike down the law that is so often referred to as “Obamacare.”

Two-thirds of those surveyed in a new public-opinion poll said that their respect for Obama would be unchanged if the Supreme Court struck down his signature legislative achievement. Fourteen percent said they would respect Obama more under such a scenario, while 15 percent said they would respect him less.

That trend was consistent across the political spectrum—similar proportions of Republicans, Democrats, and independents said they would be unmoved, despite the pundits’ speculation that a Court decision declaring the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional in part or in its entirety might alter public opinion toward the president. The nonplussed attitude also held across nearly all age, income, regional, and racial categories, with at least 60 percent of each surveyed group saying that the ruling would have no impact on their view of the president.

[mrsmith]

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19991221
“... Tim Bogardus wrote:
What is going on with the word nonplussed? In the last year I’ve seen it used everywhere from The New York Times to the ESPN web site to mean ‘unimpressed’ or ‘indifferent’, when, as far as I can tell, the only correct definition is ‘confused’ or ‘perplexed’. “

Idiots.

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