Washington Post Poll Is BRUTAL For Obama And ObamaCare

Have a nice big cup of schadenfreude for breakfast. It's good for you and it tastes great!

Opposition to the new health-care law also hit a record high in the survey, with 57 percent saying they oppose the president’s most significant domestic initiative. Forty-six percent say they are strongly against it. Just a month ago, as the enrollment period was beginning, the public was almost evenly divided in its assessments of the law.

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With all the controversy surrounding the implementation of the law, Americans are evenly divided on whether the Affordable Care Act can be fixed.

Responses to that question differ dramatically depending on party identification, with Democrats overwhelmingly confident that the legislation can be made to work and Republicans overwhelmingly pessimistic about its viability. A majority of independents say it cannot be made to work.

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On three measures of leadership and empathy that have been tested repeatedly in Post-ABC polls, Obama now is underwater on all three for the first time. Half or more now say he is not a strong leader, does not understand the problems of “people like you,” and is not honest and trustworthy. Perceptions of the president as a strong leader have dropped 15 points since January, and over the past year the percentage of registered voters who say he is not honest and trustworthy has increased 12 points.

4 in 10 people say they are less likely to support a candidate who is in favor of ObamaCare while only 2 in 10 says a candidate's support of it makes them more likely to vote for that candidate.

And on and on and on.

But here's the fun one. I don't buy it as the literal truth but...

Asked who they would vote for if they could have a mulligan on the 2012 election, 49% say Romney, 45% Obama in ABC/WashPost poll

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) November 19, 2013

posted by DrewM. at 08:04 AM

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