Fox News poll: ObamaCare more popular than GOP tax law

Source: The Hill
Published: Aug 23, 2018
Author: Nathaniel Weixel
Post Date: 2018-08-23 19:48:59 by Willie Green
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ObamaCare is more popular than the GOP tax law, according to a new Fox News poll.

The 2010 health-care law registered a 51 percent approval rating, compared with 40 percent for the 2017 Republican tax cuts, according to the survey released on Thursday.

The poll, which surveyed 1,009 registered voters, also found that only 36 percent of respondents approve of the way President Trump is handling health care, with 55 percent disapproving.

Congressional Republicans tried and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year, but they continue to criticize it.

Democrats say the Trump administration has been working to undermine the law through new regulations, and Trump has taken credit for "essentially" repealing ObamaCare.

The less-popular tax measure was signed into law by Trump in December. Republican leaders in Washington have been praising the law's tax cuts for small businesses and individuals, though the issue has not gotten as much attention on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm elections in November.

The poll was conducted Aug. 19–21 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

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#1: Justified    To: Willie Green (#0)

The poll, which surveyed 1,009 registered voters, also found that only 36 percent of respondents approve of the way President Trump is handling health care, with 55 percent disapproving.

We expected trump to kill Obamacare. If he would have killed ObamaCare as he said he would approval would be much higher.

When people forget history regressives will be more than happy to fill in with propaganda!

Justified posted on 2018-08-23 21:18:23   Reply   Private Reply

#2: nolu chan    To: Willie Green (#0)

Polls, polls, polls.

The 2010 health-care law registered a 51 percent approval rating, compared with 40 percent for the 2017 Republican tax cuts, according to the survey released on Thursday.

The 2010 Health Care law no longer exists. The individual mandate is dead. Did polled people approve of the law as in 2010 or 2018?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

Updated on November 8, 2016, the 538 projection gave Hillary a 71.4% chance of winning, and Trump a 28.6% chance of winning.

We know how that worked out. Not to worry. On November 11, 2016, 538 was back on the job.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gave-trump-a-better-chance-than-almost-anyone-else/

Nov. 11, 2016, at 4:09 PM

Why FiveThirtyEight Gave Trump A Better Chance Than Almost Anyone Else

By Nate Silver

Based on what most of us would have thought possible a year or two ago, the election of Donald Trump was one of the most shocking events in American political history. But it shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise based on the polls — at least if you were reading FiveThirtyEight. Given the historical accuracy of polling and where each candidate’s support was distributed, the polls showed a race that was both fairly close and highly uncertain.

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What pollsters and hindsight can do is amazing.

nolu chan posted on 2018-08-23 21:44:41   Reply   Private Reply

#3: misterwhite    To: Willie Green (#0)

ObamaCare more popular than GOP tax law

So I guess that means Democrats will be running in 2018 on re-instating full- blown Obamacare and repealing the tax cuts? Funny, I haven't seen any campaign ads like that.

misterwhite posted on 2018-08-24 09:15:15   Reply   Private Reply