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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 05:20 PM Apr 2014

NYT Poll: Even These Southern States Don't Want Obamacare Repealed

NYT Poll: Even These Southern States Don't Want Obamacare Repealed

Majorities of people surveyed in a trio of Southern states said they would rather keep Obamacare and improve than repeal and replace it, according to a New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Wednesday.

Residents in Kentucky, Louisiana and North Carolina chose improving the law over repealing it and replacing it by significant margins: 52 percent to 41 percent in Kentucky, 52 percent to 44 percent in Louisiana, and a whopping 60 percent to 35 percent in North Carolina.

In a fourth state, Arkansas, a plurality said they wanted their congressional representative to work to improve the law (48 percent) instead of work to repeal the law and replace it with something else (46 percent).

The same poll found Democrats in a stronger-than-expected position in the Senate races in those four states, which will be key to determining control of the chamber next year. For context, President Obama lost three of them by at least 15 percentage points; North Carolina, where he lost by 2, was the exception.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nyt-kff-obamacare-repeal

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024764635

Why NC (surprisingly) is a national leader in Affordable Care Act enrollment
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2014/01/29/why-nc-surprisingly-is-a-national-leader-in-affordable-care-act-enrollment/

Ted Cruz's Worst Nightmare Is Coming True: Obamacare is working.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024859956

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NYT Poll: Even These Southern States Don't Want Obamacare Repealed (Original Post) ProSense Apr 2014 OP
many of them actually need it the most JI7 Apr 2014 #1
I'm an optimist... Jeff In Milwaukee Apr 2014 #2
kicked, recommended! Bill USA Apr 2014 #3

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
2. I'm an optimist...
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 05:26 PM
Apr 2014

But I believe there will come a day when poor and lower-middle class whites in the Red States realize who's been screwing them for the past forty years.

And I hope there's hell to pay.

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