No huge drop in Obamacare support despite rocky rollout: Reuters/Ipsos poll

[TomCADem]

Source: Reuters

The troubled rollout of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law has hurt the popularity of the initiative, but the decline has been fairly modest, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Monday.

Forty-one percent of Americans expressed support for the 2010 law popularly known as Obamacare in a survey conducted from Thursday to Monday. That was down 3 percentage points from a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken from September 27 to October 1.

Opposition to the healthcare law stood at 59 percent in the latest poll, versus 56 percent in the earlier survey.

There has been some shift ... but the shift has been small," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/18/us-usa-healthcare-poll-idUSBRE9AH18U20131118

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I have to say that this is pretty good news given that the media has pretty much jumped the shark in parroting right wing talking points comparing the rollout with Watergate, the Invasion of Iraq, Katrina, you name it.

[on point]

1. And I would say those of us who will enroll should do ASAP to support Obama

[Cha]

3. That's nice. :)

[Cha]

2. Thanks Tom!

[doc03]

4. Our local Rethug newspaper had a headline today that Obama's Presidency

was in criical condition

[Rozlee]

6. They've been saying that since his first inauguration.

They should look in the mirror when talking about critical condition. Their ratings are half what his are.

[tofuandbeer]

5. ...and I wonder how much money was put into trying to make those numbers higher. :)

Hopefully, another in a long line of GOP failures.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. This whole episode is going to go down as another media failure.

[pothos]

8. lol. amazing.

after all the media blasting and tea baggers hemming and hawing all over the news, support only drops 3%. that's not even out of the margin of error.

[Dopers_Greed]

9. Poll numbers for the ACA have stayed on course

But Obama's numbers are hurting pretty bad

[Stevepol]

10. When you keep apologizing,

people are going to suspect that maybe what you are apologizing for is only the tip of the iceberg. Obama needs to hit the positives of the ACA every time he gets the chance and quit apologizing. He might also point out the approximately 16 efforts by GOP pranksters and hackers to "destroy" the ACA web site. Plus the barrage of criticism from GOP reps etc. who have never had a single positive or constructive suggestion in the past to help Americans in need of health care.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

11. The local paper (AspenTimes) had a similar poll earlier this month...

Here's the poll: http://apps.aspentimes.com/utils/polling/poll_results.php?poll_ident=3942

Results
What's your take on Obamacare since its debut?
2529 total votes
11/03/2013

I still support it. Give it time. 66.39% (1679)

Never have supported it. Its rocky start only confirms it. 22.74% (575)

Don't care one way or another. 7.00% (177)

I once supported it but now I have doubts. 3.88% (98)

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. What a difference a day makes

Public opposition to health care law grows
11/19/13 10:30 AM

By Jessica Taylor

Both President Obama and his signature health law have hit new lows after a rocky past month for the White House, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Tuesday.

Opposition to the Affordable Care Act hit a new high in the Post/ABC survey, with 57% saying they oppose the law – including 46% who say they’re strongly against it. A month ago, voters said they were split on approval.

That’s along the same trajectory as the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey earlier this month that showed 49% believed the ACA was a bad idea – the highest number in the NBC survey ever.

The president’s own public perception has also slid in the Post/ABC poll as many Americans have seen their insurance policies cancelled despite repeated assurances that “If you like your plan, you can keep it.” While the administration tried to mitigate this with a new rule change last week, it doesn’t look to be enough – 63% say they disapprove of Obama’s handling of the law’s implementation, up 10 points from last month’s poll.

Fifty-five percent also said they disapprove of how Obama is handling his job as president. Fifty-seven percent say they disapprove of how he’s handling the economy, and 70% say they think the country is on the wrong track. Fifty-three percent say the president is not a strong leader, and 56% say he’s not a good manager.

Fifty-seven percent said they support making changes to the health care law – but there’s a critical divide. While 58% say they support requiring companies with over 50 workers to provide insurance or pay a fine, 65% say they oppose requiring individuals to have health insurance or pay a fine.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-daily-rundown/public-opposition-health-care-law-grows

[TomCADem]

13. The Polling Data On ACA is about the same...

...this story just does not show that views on the ACA have not changed much from earlier polling data. The poll does contain newer data regarding attitudes toward President Obama generally, but this is largely due to the biased media onslaught. As the ACA itself, the percentages are roughly the same at about 43% approving, same as the Reuters poll. Put another way, the polling data is about the same as the Reuters poll, but MSNBC decided to try place it into the narrative of attacking the President and Democrats.