New Poll undercuts GOP claim of a midterm mandate

[Joanne98]

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of registered voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or repeal it altogether.

Driving support for the law: Voters by margins of 2-1 or greater want to keep some of its best-known benefits, such as barring insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. One thing they don't like: the mandate that everyone must buy insurance.

At the same time, the survey showed that a majority of voters side with the Democrats on another hot-button issue, extending the Bush era tax cuts that are set to expire Dec. 31 only for those making less than $250,000.



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[CitizenLeft]

1. Unfortunately, we won't hear about this poll from anyone but...

...Keith, Rachel and Lawrence. And Rachel and Lawrence are on vacation.

[TheIdiot]

2. Not only that, but...

why the HELL didn't those "registered voters" get off their asses and VOTE?!?!?

[CitizenLeft]

3. I know... I don't know. I will say this:

I'm surrounded by liberals where I work. I believe I'm the ONLY person who had intended to vote in the mid-terms. Most, if not all, had never voted in the mid-terms at all. It was a struggle talking some of them into it. There's just some kind of wierd apathy about mid-terms with voters, no matter how how many times and in how many ways you explain how critical it is. They can't SEE the importance of it, so it goes in one ear and out the other.