Politics Are Biggest Factor in Views of Obamacare. Party ID most influential predictor of support

Gallup ^ | 04/01/2014 | Andrew Dugan and Frank Newport

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With Monday's deadline for enrolling in an insurance plan past, no other factor -- including race, income, personal ideology, gender, or education -- is as relevant to Americans' opinions on the Affordable Care Act as their party affiliation. This remains the foremost predictor of whether an individual will disapprove of the ACA.

These results stem from an aggregated set of surveys in which Gallup measured approval of the ACA. The data span August 2013 to March 2014 and include interviews with 13,797 U.S. adults. Overall support for the ACA remained low throughout this period, even as the various components of the law rolled out.

Of the majority of Americans who disapprove, nearly seven in 10 are self-identified Republicans or individuals who lean toward the GOP. Democrats and Democratic leaners make up less than a fifth of those who disapprove of the law. The remaining 14%, based on their survey responses, cannot be classified as Republicans or Democrats.

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[Pearls Before Swine]

Follow the money. Those who would have been paying premiums and deductibles, are paying much higher ones. Those who wouldn’t have been, are now “insured”, whatever that now means.

[albie]

Biggest “duh” poll ever.

[TexasCajun]

If I recall, not one Republican vote in the house or senate.
Most partisan vote ever.

[cicero2k]

Obamacare sign-up became an exercise in Democratic community organizing.

- Robo calls to, non English speaking minorities, check.
- SEUI and other union involvement, check.
- Church Pastor involvement, check.

It’s the base.

[falcon99]

Exactly right, this is a no brainer. One party wants government dominance in everything and the other party (supposedly) wants small government. So noting new with this dumb poll

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article SeekAndFind. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

The Gallup poll is flawed in the following way imo. As a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, many citizens do not understand that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes. And I'm sure that many misguided Democratic voters would agree that federal Democratic lawmakers wrongly established constitutionally indefensible federal Obamacare Democratcare without first securing from the states a required healthcare amendment to the Constitution.