Poll: Obama's Recovered Some of the Big Loss of Support From the Healthcare.Gov Debacle, But Not Most of It

Congress isn't in session, and the President is taking a well-deserved 17 day vacation. So there isn't much news, apart from the manufactured kind.

Allahpundit analyzes some recent manufactured news, a CNN poll.

The news isn’t that the GOP’s leading on the generic ballot; that’s been true in several polls since November, when the botched ObamaCare rollout dropped an atomic bomb on Democratic numbers so powerful that even veteran number-crunchers like Charlie Cook trembled at its glory. The news is that the comparative stability of Healthcare.gov over the past month hasn’t healed those Democratic wounds...

He links Conn Carroll, who notes the GOP is on track (on track, mind you) for another wave election. Quoting CNN, he finds that Obama's claim that Healthcare.gov is "fixed" hasn't fixed the Democrats' deteriorating position:

Two months ago, Democrats held a 50%-42% advantage among registered voters in a generic ballot...

But the Democratic lead evaporated, and a CNN poll a month ago indicated the GOP holding a 49%-47% lead. The new survey, conducted in mid-December, indicates Republicans with a 49%-44% edge over the Democrats.

The Democrats' 50-42 advantage was temporary, of course, due to the media's pile-on over the shutdown, but the Democrats had had leads throughout the year.

But since Obama declared his stupid website "fixed" (apart from it being mostly nonfunctional, of course), Democrats have actually.. lost further ground.

CNN's poll finds Democrats losing support almost exclusively with men (falling from 46% to a woeful 35%), while continuing to own the women's vote (54% slipping down, meaninglessly, to 53%).

But their previous poll found that almost all loss of support for Obamacare (not the same as Congressional Democrats, but these two things should obviously be closely related) was coming from women deciding to flip from supporting the law to opposing it.

What that means, I don't know.

Hit the first link to see multiple trendlines showing the same basic phenomenon -- Obama and Obamacare lose big support in October and November, and then support begins to climb after the site is "fixed"... but climbing only to a new normal of relatively low support.

And, while the public isn't quite as harsh on Obama and Obmacare as it was three weeks ago, it's also trending towards the GOP as far as Congressional races.

posted by Ace at 04:17 PM

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