Posted on 03/15/2011 6:22:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The new national survey of Republican primary voters from Public Policy Polling (D) asks a simply devastating question regarding Mitt Romney's future political fortunes -- and it comes down to the fact that Romney's signature achievement as governor of Massachusetts, a workable system of mandatory health insurance with subsidies for lower earners, bears a striking resemblance to the national health care reform plan that President Obama and Congressional Democrats passed last year.
The poll asked respondents: "Would you be willing to vote for someone who supported a bill at the state level mandating that voters have health insurance for President?"
The answer: Only 17% would be willing to vote for that candidate, compared to 61% who would not be willing, and 22% who are not sure.
The question did not directly mention Romney, but clearly shows a pitfall for him in the 2012 Republican primaries.
To deal with this problem, Romney has tried taking the states-rights angle, as in a recent speech: "Our experiment wasn't perfect--some things worked, some didn't, and some things I'd change. One thing I would never do is to usurp the constitutional power of states with a one-size-fits-all federal takeover."
But as this poll illustrates, even a state-level individual mandate for private insurance is likely too much for the GOP primary electorate to swallow.
No, no, no, Mitt's the frontrunner, don't you see it? Yeah, frontrunner, that's the ticket!!
Bump
PPP is well-known to be THE Dem pollster. If Rasmussen or Gallup asked the same question (which Gallip already asked), it would show the reverse.
“and it comes down to the fact that Romney’s signature achievement as governor of Massachusetts, a workable system of mandatory health insurance with subsidies “
“Workable”?
What?
I see that the Republicans are hard at work in the back rooms planning to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Makes me want to hurl. Multiple times. Daily.
TPM is a lefty website, so the author no doubt thinks ObamaCare is the cat’s meow.
PPP is going to do all it can to trash GOP frontrunners until a very weak candidate appears on top. One that Obama can beat. Like the janitor.....
If Romney is the nominee, I’m voting in every race on the ballot. I’ll write in Sarah Palin President, Jim DeMint VP, and then vote for the conservative in every other race. There are many republicans I would tolerate and vote for, if Sarah doesn’t win, but Romney is sufficiently close to being as bad as Obama that I will not vote for him.
RINOS yes, sane GOP members no.
“PPP is well-known to be THE Dem pollster. If Rasmussen or Gallup asked the same question (which Gallip already asked), it would show the reverse.”
What is taking place when several reputable polling companies get the same answers, like in the 06, 08 and 10 elections?
Mitt is toast, it’s obvious that many Republicans don’t know about Mitt’s healthcare past, and once they do... he wont have a chance in hell.
Time for Palin to step forward.
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