Posted on 03/18/2010 11:39:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
As Americans wait for Congress to act on health care, a Fox News poll released Thursday finds 55 percent oppose the reforms being considered, while 35 percent favor them.
In addition, just over half of voters think House Democrats are “changing the rules” to get their bill passed.
About a third of voters (31 percent) think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are “playing by the rules” to get health care through, while 53 percent think they are “changing the rules.” Looking at the results by political party, 53 percent of Democrats think their party is playing by the rules, about one in four think they are changing the rules (27 percent) and the rest are unsure (19 percent). Varying majorities of Republicans (78 percent) and independents (57 percent) think House Democrats are changing the rules to pass the bill.
The level of public support for the health care overhaul has remained fairly steady since last July -- 35 percent favor it now and 36 percent favored it last summer. The number opposed -- 55 percent -- is up from 51 percent in January, and from 47 percent last July. Opposition hit a high of 57 percent in December.
Among partisans, the president’s party faithful are alone in supporting the proposed reforms. Sixty-six percent of Democrats favor them, while 53 percent of independents and 88 percent of Republicans oppose them.
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Only 55%?
Why that’s strange, who knew they were changing the rules, or according to Obama even cares about the rules.
Democrats are changing the rules, ignoring the Constitution and bribing members for votes. They’re Democrats, what did you expect from them.
Only 55%? From a FOX poll?
$%^#. Looking grim.
85% of us already have health insurance and the cost had doubled due to government regulation and laws.
Only 55% are opposed to giving the government rationing control of health care coverage? huh? That doesn’t sound right.
Rep King was Glenn Beck asking one million to show up in D.C. by Saturday at noon to stop Obamacare! With the crescendo gathering Saturday at noon and surround the Capitol!!
“Only 55%? From a FOX poll?”
Actually Fox polls have a tendency to underestimate GOP positions.
Nobody teached economics anymore.
“teached” should be “teaches”
fox site has vote at 219 nays,,anybody confirm this?
The dumb public has no idea the taxes in this, the millions of jobs it will cost america and the deaths from rationed care it will cause.
Prayer is our only hope now
Only 55%? On a FOX poll?
55% opposed vs 35% in favor is good. There is still 10% out there unaccounted for. So, the actual percent opposed is probably somewhere between 60% to 65%.
Only 35% in favor.
Today, Obama would not be elected to POTUS.
It’s a landslide ratio against Obamacare.
55% sounds like a lowball to me.
numbers do confirm that this is purely a play to their base
It would be MUCH higher if people actually knew what was in the bill.
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