Voters in mid-Michigan will be hearing from certain folks that everyone hates the federal health-care reform and repeal is just a matter of having an election this November. I made note recently, though, of the apparent lack of votes in the current House of Representatives to go the repeal route.
Today, I draw your attention to the invaluable pollster.com site and its tracking of polling on views about the health-care law. At this particular moment, the polling average shows a dead heat: 44 percent favor the law and 44 percent oppose it. To emphasize, this is an average of a great number of polls done by a variety of pollsters.
A couple of other points:
1. Watch out for anyone who claims "most" of America opposes the law. In the individual polls listed at pollster.com, not a single survey conducted in 2010 shows opposition at 60 percent or more. The high points, so far, to opposition were 58 percent in a couple of Rasmussen polls taken during the winter.
2. In the post recent poll, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 41 percent of responders had an unfavorable view of the law. Those people were subsequently asked what the best course of action was ... 29 percent said Congress should tweak the measure to improve it, while 66 percent said quick and full repeal was the way to go. So, only 2/3 of the opponents are willing to go all the way to repeal.
To be clear, America remains divided on the topic, as the pollster.com averages show. But quick and full repeal of the measure seems increasingly unlikely, even after the November general election.
