As the House GOP gears up to vote on ObamaCare repeal, the MSM gets its DNC marching orders and, willy-nilly, produces polls showing that the GOP shouldn’t repeal. But, as noted over at NRO, the polls are worthless: …the AP poll, which shows that 40 percent of adults support Obamacare and 41 percent oppose it. In November, the last time the AP polled this question, 38 percent supported Obamacare and 47 percent opposed it. But the sample in November was very different: 38 percent Republican and 39 percent Democrat. The sample in January wasn’t so balanced, with 42 percent of the responders Democrat and 36 percent Republican…
…The Marist poll finds that 35 percent of registered voters would like Obamacare changed so that it could do more, 13 percent would like it to do less, and 30 percent would prefer the law be fully repealed. But again, the numbers aren’t equal: 35 percent of those polled were Democrat, and 28 percent Republican. Exit polls for the 2010 election found equal numbers of Democrat and Republican voters, both parties represented by about 36 percent of voters respectively…
The polls are also, apparently, badly worded and don’t take in to account what the GOP plan really is – to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with reform more in tune with popular demands for health care reform (selling insurance across State lines, that sort of thing). It is a sign of increasing desperation on the part of the Democrats and their MSM allies that they’d stoop to such bogus polls to try and skew the debate. It must be kept in mind what liberals most fear – ObamaCare being repealed in the House and then a GOP-2112 Democrat coalition forcing a repeal vote in the Senate. The last thing Democrats want is for Obama to have to veto a repeal – they don’t want Obama to carry this horrifically unpopular legislation in to 2012 with him being the only person who prevented common-sense modifications to a deeply flawed health care reform.
We’ve got them boxed in on this provided the House actually votes to repeal – after that, Democrats can either kill it in the Senate, or force Obama to veto it. In either case, Democrats will then carry the onus of not only passing the bad bill, but blocking all efforts – some of them to be manifestly bi-partisan – to replace (or at least modify) health care reform with something more palatable to the people. For the first time in a long time, the GOP is firmly in control of events…all we need is a bit of courage of our convictions, and the rest will fall in to place.
