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.
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.
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.
Eh? What? Rats? Sinking ships? What was that?
(smirk).. moderate democrats.
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.
'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).'
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
Hey rove... jam this truth right up your... rovian exit port.
At this point what difference does it make?
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.
Folks who supported O-care should be the first to live under the weight of all 2700 pages of the law.
No need to worry... the hapless, gutless, GOP Capon Party is embracing it.
RATs abandoning their own creation — Obamacare?
Where will they go?
Doesn’t matter. They are learning that the two parties are the same, and that the State trumps the party every time.
“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.)
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.
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?
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.
The GOPe will fill in for the detecting Dems. That is how the game is played.
The GOPe will fill in for the detecting Dems. That is how the game is played.
Boycott the health care system entirely. Just say no.
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