I think some of this is about Copenhagan.
And some of it is liberals upset with Copenhagan, or upset about Obama supporting the watered-down Senate bill.
So I think the strong disapproval could go do approval, simply by Obama doing stuff for his left. Just like sometimes Bush could pull up his negative numbers by catering to the base, until the Amnesty pushed them over the edge.
Still, it does show the hatred for the Obamacare bill.
Unfortunately, the Senate seems to think they can vote this thing, and maybe they believe the House will stop it somehow so the bill won’t pass and the left will blame someone else.
Frankly, this is beginning to look like Amnesty for republicans (except that the democrats might actually pass the bill). If the Democrats don’t pass health care, the left will stay home on election day, and they will lose.
If they DO pass health care, the independents will abandon them, and they will lose, and the left might STILL abandon them if the bill isn’t nice enough.
The Democrats only have one play — scrap this bill, make a deal for a smaller, REAL reform with republicans. They sell the left that they have the foot in the door, they win independents with the move to the center, and they demoralize the conservative base who won’t like the moderate health care reform measure.
If the liberals in the senate were smart, they’d agree to vote for a bill that would get 3-4 republicans.
the problem with obamacare is that liberals expecting a public option will now have to pay a fine if they don’t buy private insurance. You can’t really patch that pain over with gay marriage and other tokens.