Poll: Tea Party and Health Care Reform

[ehrnst]

With much media discussion of the role that the Tea Party will play in the upcoming congressional midterm elections, this data note takes a closer look at Tea Party supporters using the most recent Health Tracking Poll data from September.

While 57 percent of voters who do not support the Tea Party movement view the health reform law “very” or “somewhat” favorably, 57 percent of Tea Party supporters view the law “very” unfavorably, and another 11 percent “somewhat unfavorably”. At the same time, nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of Tea Party supporters say they feel “angry” about health reform, even though most (82 percent) of these say their anger is more widely targeted at Washington as a whole rather than specific to the reform law.

Released by the Kaiser Family Foundation:

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8113.pdf

[bluestateguy]

1. 27% of the Tea Party folks are at least somewhat favorably disposed to HCR?

Gee. That seems like the story to me right there.

[Javaman]

2. I would love to see the age demographic.

how many of these same people are over 65 and collect SS and medicare?