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New Poll: Only 52 Percent of Democrats Support ObamaCare; Will the Networks Report?

By Ken Shepherd | October 28, 2011 | 10:42

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A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds the support for ObamaCare has dipped yet again, with just 34 percent of Americans favoring the president's signature health care overhaul.

What's more, just 52 percent of Democrats support the law, a troubling sign for President Obama a year before Election Day. Thirty-one percent of Democrats view the law either "somewhat" or "very" unfavorably.

We'll be monitoring the major networks to see how much if any attention they devote to the new numbers. Here's an except from Times Washington bureau reporter Noam Levey's October 28 story:

Public support for the new healthcare law dropped significantly in October, a new survey shows, dealing a blow to the Obama administration as Republican presidential candidates keep up their pledges to repeal the president’s signature domestic legislative achievement.

More than half of Americans now view the law unfavorably, according to a tracking poll by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

And just 34% of Americans view the law favorably, the lowest level of support since the president signed the law in March 2010.

Much of the decline appears to have been driven by faltering support among Democrats, just 52% of whom said they view the law favorably, down from 65% a month earlier.

Support among independents dropped from 36% to 32%. And support from Republicans fell from 14% to 11%.

The decline in public dissatisfaction marks a shift from previous Kaiser tracking polls over the last year, which have generally shown the public nearly evenly split on the sweeping new law.

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Ken - interesting to note on the LAT's Kaiser poll - ObamaCare

Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:49pm.

While Noam Levy stands as the Los Angeles Times' premier above the fold, front page, staff writer on health care coverage issues, this piece is located in their on-line "Politics Now" forum.

This is not in my Los Angeles Times print edition, nor is it likely to be. It's becoming more and more common that this paper is using their on-line paper, for the delivery of news that they feel they have an obligation to share, but don't really want many people to see it.

Down the road, when we come back and question them about not covering something, like this, they're quick to respond, "Oh, we covered that - here's the link." Of course, the on-line only items don't show up in their archives searches, as don't the wire services posted articles.

I'd note that this piece is stamped at 4:01 AM, well past the print deadline - we'll see if it shows up in tomorrow's paper. However, the last couple of dozen times I've been shocked to see items here, they did not show up in the print edition. One was the Pew Center's polling on the AZ immigration bill where we found out that only 25% of the country supported Obama's agenda on Immigration issues - well, those of us who happened into it, tucked away in some obscure on-line forum.

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Excellent observations, Gary.

Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:40pm.

Excellent observations, Gary. Thanks for sharing them.


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