Right-wing Push Poll Accidentally Finds Obamacare Popular

How do you convince people to rail against their own best interests and let the insurance companies keep shafting them? Tough row to hoe. Keep trying wing nuts.

Heritage's new poll oversamples Republicans and asks misleading questions -- but finds most want to keep Obamacare
By Alex Seitz-Wald

Heritage Action, the activist wing of the conservative Heritage Foundation, is out with a new poll today that’s getting some favorable coverage in the mainstream political press. According to Heritage, the survey shows that the GOP shouldn’t fear a government shutdown over Obamacare defunding. But there’s a catch.

The background here is that a group of conservative senators, including Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio, are trying to push Republican leaders to demand that Congress defund Obamacare in upcoming appropriations battles , even if it means forcing the government to shut down. Heritage supports the effort, so it took the poll to try to steel the spines of Republican leaders.

“Americans — including 57 percent of independents in ten critical congressional districts — favor defunding Obamacare,” said Michael Needham, the CEO of Heritage Action. “House Republicans should be much more concerned with the fallout of failing to defund Obamacare than with the imaginary fallout of doing so.”

What Needham fails to mention, however, is that even this push poll that dramatically oversamples Republicans (more on that in a minute) finds respondents are more likely to say that the Affordable Care Act should be kept than scrapped — and that a plurality would blame Republicans if the government were to shut down.

Only 44.5 percent “oppose the health care law and think it should be repealed,” while 52 percent either support the law as is or have some concerns, but say they think implementation should move forward. And asked whom they would blame if “there was an impasse between president Obama and Congress on whether to continue to fund the health care law, and that impasse resulted in a partial government shutdown,” the top response (28 percent) was Republicans in Congress. The next option, Obama, got 21 percent of respondents.

As for Heritage’s sample, which NBC calls voters from “10 relatively competitive congressional districts,” and Heritage says represents “the American people” as a whole — not so much.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/14/right_wing_push_poll_accidentally_finds_obamacare_popular/

 

And!

 

Apparently this is news the Repukes don't want to talk about.

Ahhh! The sound of silence.

 

Shut up, racist.

 

And another poll that you apparently don't agree with!

 

My, they get nasty when their lies are called out.

 

Are you admitting that you only believe the polls that agree with your opinions? Seems like it to me. You can't seem to say a word about the poll "conducted by Republicans and over sampled said Republicans" that is actually the topic of the thread but you can talk about a poll that has nothing to do with the topic of the thread because you agree with it? Hum? I'd call that believing in only the polls that you already agree with by any definition wouldn't you?

If you're going to endlessly rail on someone for a comment that was originally posted completely and totally sarcastically as if it were not, you really shouldn't demonstrate the same type of behavior that you are trying to ridicule in the first place. It just makes you look dumber than dirt once again.

If you can't follow the logic here, have someone explain it to you.

 

That isn't a shutdown, that sounds like the start of a pretty good budget proposal.

 

Here is another reading of THAT SAME POLL;

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/conservative-pollsters-to-gop-dont-worry-about-shutdown

And, no, I am presenting your words that you posted here of you own free will (or Obama's free will?).

 

The Obamacare fiasco is so bad that congress has exempted themselves from it. The IRS wants nothing to do with except enforce it and even unions are turning against it. Nice try Gosnell

 

I wish Little Joe would tell us why he believes Congress has exempted themselves from Obamacare. I would like to hear just one good reason.

I would also like to hear him tell us why he thinks the unions have turned against Obamacare.

 

You just hate to have the obvious truth thrown back in your face don't you? You don't like the poll I posted conducted by a Right-wing think tank so you post one you do like. That sounds like you only believe the polls you already agree with to me.

My words were obvious sarcasm which obviously went right over your head at the time and ever since. Keep posting them, I get a laugh every time. Little Crack!

 

I guess that poll interpretation went over you head - or more likely disagreed with your mores.

 

Is the caveman gene rearing up in you again. English please.

 

What a dumb drunken rant.

 

Ha.....got called drunk again.....must have hit a sore spot

 

What does he have left? How can Obamacare been spun as a good thing when the people who forced it on us exercise their right to choose & choose not to participate in the program? How can he argue the unions (that supported Obamacare only after being promised their members would be exempted) are now lobbying against it after realizing those pesky "details" no one read prior to passing the bill? How can he claim the IRS has nothing to do with it though the agency will be the party responsible for collecting the tax & assessing the penalties...not to mention the new, part-time, Obamacare-exempt people being hired to "navigate" the red tape will be IRS employees?

 

That says it all. He has absolutely nothing left. Obamacare has now been revealed as the "train wreck" that Max Baucus said it would become (and Harry Reid agreed with, btw). At this point, we all know what Obamacare is and how it is going to negatively affect our lives. Everything from Little Joe from here on out is just "spin".

 

I just smile every single time you wing nuts rail against the Affordable Care Act. All the lies, all the sabotage, all the obstructionism, all the endless repeal votes and yet....It is the law of the land and you will have to abide by it.
Keep holding out hope that your bat shit crazy wing nuts in congress will actually be able to do anything about it. I know how badly you losers want to see 30 million people thrown off of medical insurance coverage but it isn't going to happen no matter how much you lie, whine, and complain. Not going to happen.