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Polling Averages Suggest Narrow Approval Of Obama On Health Care
The newest round-up of polls suggests that President Obama has a narrow plurality of approval on health care, CNN reports, though the poll of polls does put him under 50%.
The CNN polling average gives Obama a 47% approval on health care, to 44% disapproval. This is compiled from three recent surveys:
• Gallup: Approve 44%, Disapprove 50%.
• ABC/WaPo: Approve 49%, Disapprove 44%.
• CBS: Approve 49%, Disapprove 37%.
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The numbers from the CBS poll sure are interesting:
As much as 43% of Republican voters support a public plan! That sure didn't get much play, did it?
July 22, 2009 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks
July 22, 2009 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
What matter is who they prefer on health care. The corporate media, in its desperate rush to kill health care reform, continues to pretend these numbers mean the public is split between Obama and the GOP. The truth is that, when you ask who they trust more on the issue, Obama leads the GOP by 15 to 20 points.
July 22, 2009 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly, who cares what the polls say now. There are polls on re-election of various politicians being done now as well, and they don't mean spit right now because so much will change between now and Nov. 2010. Also, these numbers are fluid and may represent voters temporarily responding to scare tactics.
The bigger, much more important question is how are voters going to perceive the legislation and the parties after it either passes or fails.
July 22, 2009 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm having an optimistic day, so I'll say I think the downtick in support is mainly a lag from the last month or so in which Obama was on foreign travel and wasn't really that engaged on health care, leaving the field to Rahm, Nancy and company. Now that he's back leading the charge there's some upward potential.
We saw again and again during the campaign and since that Obama got the end-game right even after we were tearing our hair out that he was losing the initiative. Let's hope we'll see a repeat of that.
July 22, 2009 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, sure: I'm an Obama supporter and am disappointed with how he's handling health care because I want to see a more full-voiced, aggressive push for a public health care option coming from the White House. I don't approve of how he's handling things because I want to see more, not less, of the Dem agenda being pushed forward here.
It was the same with credit card reform: I disapproved with how the Democrats handled things not because they did too much but because they didn't do enough.
July 22, 2009 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink