The Homa Files

Gone !

This week, the left-leaning media has been trumpeting the bump that Pres Obama and his healthcare plan have gotten from passage of ObamaCare.

Perhaps the high fives were a tad premature.

Pollster.com’s poll-of-polls shows that — immediately after the vote — there was a bump of a couple points in people favoring the bill.

The approvers were still in the minority, and disapprovers outnumbered approvers.

But, the approvers number has fallen back to pre-vote levels.

 
http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/healthplan.php

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What about Obama’s approval numbers?

There was a positive bump of about 5 percentage points in the days after the vote.

But, the numbers seemed to have turned back around.  According to Gallup, the 5 points are gone  — and the approver and disapprovers are tied at 46% — just as they were before the vote.

Why ? My guess is that the publicity surrounding the enormous corporate write-offs related to the bill is resonating … people may be sensing that ObamaCare isn’t free after all and that they may be the ones paying for it — either by losing benefits or losing their jobs or both.

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Most interesting (to me) is the movement among folks who strongly approve or disapprove.

There has been a 5 point bump is strong approvers, suggesting that Obama did, in fact, rally his base.

But, the level of strong disapprovers has remained in a pretty tight range and is trending upwards, indicating that few people who opposed ObamaCare before the vote has been won over, and that the intensity of disapproval remains quite high

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history

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