Certain people in this thread seem to be forgetting that roughly 25-30% of the opposition to Obamacare, according to polls, comes from the left (people who want single-payer). Only about 40-45% of the nation opposes Obamacare from the right.
Obviously you're referring to me. You suggest that a substantial number of the opponents of DemocratCare think the only problem with it is that
it doesn't impose enough government control on people's health care decisions. Here's the problem with your analysis:
The Florida poll shows that the percentage of people who disagree with DemocratCare (50%) is almost identical with the percentage that think it will make health care worse (47%) and that think it will make health care more expensive (51%). http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=3c025172-d766-4ce7-928f-01f11c9c0671&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter For your analysis to hold water, these figures would have to be far further apart. Only 20% of respondents think DemocratCare will "make health care better" -- which is about the same percentage of Americans who self-identify as "liberals" and nearly all of whom would be in the 39% who supported the SCOTUS decision. Only 12% think it will reduce health care costs. (I also note that the Florida survey included only 61% white people; the Nov. 6th electorate will be substantially whiter than that.)
In other words, Obama and the Democratic hold on the Senate are dead. Nearly every. single. one. of those 50% will be out to vote -- not for Romney, but against DemocratCare. How many of the 39%, only one-third of whom (12% of 39%) think DemocratCare will lower their health care costs, are going to run to the polls to vote it up?
Landslide.
I recall someone else making exactly the same prediction in March, 2010, when DemocratCare was passed and signed into law. They were right. There was a jump of about 4% in favor for about two weeks.
True. Romney is the very undeserving beneficiary of this.
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