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Democrats Are Abandoning Obamacare
Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2013 | Michael F. Cannon

Posted on 07/26/2013 4:06:59 PM PDT by Kaslin

From The Washington Post’s The Fix:

Moderate Democrats are quitting on Obamacare

By Scott Clement, Published: July 23 at 9:00 am

The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has never been very popular and always highly partisan, but a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a group of once loyal Democrats has been steadily turning against Obamacare: Democrats who are ideologically moderate  or conservative.

Just after the law was passed in 2010, fully 74 percent of moderate and conservative Democrats supported the federal law making changes to the health-care system. But just 46 percent express support in the new poll, down 11 points in the past year. Liberal Democrats, by contrast, have continued to support the law at very high levels – 78 percent in the latest survey. Among the public at large, 42 percent support and 49 percent oppose the law, retreating from an even split at 47 percent apiece last July.

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The shift among the Democratic party’s large swath in the ideological middle– most Democrats in this poll, 57 percent, identify as moderate or conservative – is driving an overall drop in party support for the legislation: Just 58 percent of Democrats now support the law, down from 68 percent last year and the lowest since the law was enacted in 2010. This broader drop mirrors tracking surveys by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation and Fox News polls, both of which found Democratic support falling earlier this year.

Read the whole thing.

This news comes on the heels of a significant fissure among House Democrats over Obamacare.

It also deflates an already weak talking point Obamacare supporters have used to pooh-pooh the law’s persistent unpopularity. As Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution once put it:

Of [the] 51 percent [who oppose the law], somewhere between a quarter and a third oppose the bill not because they are against it, but because they don’t think it went far enough.

They can’t use that excuse here. If Democratic support for Obamacare fell because more Democrats suddenly wish the law went farther, that drop would occur first and primarily among left-wing Democrats, not moderates and conservatives. It’s hard to come up with a story that explains why that dynamic would cause a drop in support only among moderates and conservatives.


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1 posted on 07/26/2013 4:06:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Eh? What? Rats? Sinking ships? What was that?


2 posted on 07/26/2013 4:11:17 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Kaslin

(smirk).. moderate democrats.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 4:11:21 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Kaslin

I call headfake. They’re going to cram this thing down our throats through fines, seizure of property, prison time, while making private medical practice illegal, and any other means to extort the prize they’ve been drooling over for ninety years. Obamacare needs to die, and die hard. There is no other alternative.


4 posted on 07/26/2013 4:14:04 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Kaslin
They want it both ways, just like the republicans.

'I'm with you all - I hate it (but won't lift a finger to get rid of it, because its got huge political potential).'

5 posted on 07/26/2013 4:14:24 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: fwdude

I can deal (sort of) with the term moderate democrat, but when some uses the term conservative democrat I could scream. Everyone knows there is no such thing as a conservative liberal


6 posted on 07/26/2013 4:18:20 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Hey rove... jam this truth right up your... rovian exit port.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 4:18:22 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Kaslin

At this point what difference does it make?


8 posted on 07/26/2013 4:18:39 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Kaslin

What would be really useful is if ABC had a breakdown as to what percentages liberal, moderate and conservative democrats are on a big pie chart. Then we’d have some sense of scale as to really what percentage of total democrats are for or against. I mean if only 10% of all democrats are moderate/conservative, the polls mean a lot different than if moderates/conservative democrats (oxymoron) are more like 70% of all democrats.


9 posted on 07/26/2013 4:30:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin

Folks who supported O-care should be the first to live under the weight of all 2700 pages of the law.


10 posted on 07/26/2013 4:32:07 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Kaslin

No need to worry... the hapless, gutless, GOP Capon Party is embracing it.


11 posted on 07/26/2013 4:33:04 PM PDT by Gritty (Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are void-Jefferson, 1798)
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To: Kaslin

RATs abandoning their own creation — Obamacare?

Where will they go?


12 posted on 07/26/2013 4:38:45 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: Kaslin

Doesn’t matter. They are learning that the two parties are the same, and that the State trumps the party every time.


13 posted on 07/26/2013 4:42:38 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: Kaslin

“Everyone knows there is no such thing as a conservative liberal”

If you’re a screaming left of lefty then a conservative liberal would be somebody who drank Starbucks, drove a Subaru Outback (with Coexist bumper sticker) but also believed marriage should be between one man and one woman*. (* plus any sexting, or clandestine but heterosexual relationships you can get without suffering a divorce.)


14 posted on 07/26/2013 4:53:50 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin

I saw on the news today though that Barry is spending big taxpayer bucks to throw a big party for the Hollyweirdos to celebrate the coming of rationed, communist healthcare and they are handing out “I (Heart) ObamaCare” bumper stickers to the low information types.


15 posted on 07/26/2013 4:55:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Amnesty. The DemocRATS' payback for the 2010 elections.)
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To: Kaslin

Hopefully, the Dems will be driven from their seats in next year’s election, a loss so profound that they will tar and feather that witch, Pelosi, and that weasel, Reid. And The Worst President Ever will be on the road to impeachment. I can dream, can’t I?


16 posted on 07/26/2013 4:55:13 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Kaslin

don’t believe it. obamacare right on schedule. again, just another distraction by the D.C. party.

if you don’t think so, name one great society social program that is not now a complete failure but continues to enslave, year after year. these programs don’t have to “work.” they just have to exist.


17 posted on 07/26/2013 4:58:56 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Kaslin

The GOPe will fill in for the detecting Dems. That is how the game is played.


18 posted on 07/26/2013 5:20:45 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Kaslin

The GOPe will fill in for the detecting Dems. That is how the game is played.


19 posted on 07/26/2013 5:20:54 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Kaslin
Want to upset the apple cart while extending your life and improving your health?

Boycott the health care system entirely. Just say no.

20 posted on 07/26/2013 5:24:23 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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