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Thu Jan 26, 2012 at 01:00 PM PST

Kaiser poll finds little traction in GOP attacks on Romney over health care

by Joan McCarterFollow

This month's Kaiser Family Foundation poll had some discouraging results about the public's attitude toward the Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act, but it had a glimmer of good news for Mitt Romney.

First, this, via Think Progress.

And what do Republicans think?
As the race for the Republican presidential nomination heats up, the latest tracking poll shows that attempts by rival GOP contenders to paint former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as holding views on health policy similar to those of President Obama do not seem to be resonating with most Republicans. Despite repeated reminders that Romney signed a 2006 Massachusetts law that is similar in some respects to the national health reform law, nearly half of Republicans (49%) say the two men's views are different, three in ten say they are similar, and another 22 percent had no opinion

Apparently, they hate President Obama and, by extension, his health care law so much that they are willfully blind to the fact that it's essentially the same program. Except, of course, Romney's covers abortion. Go figure.

Originally posted to Joan McCarter on Thu Jan 26, 2012 at 01:00 PM PST.

Also republished by Daily Kos.

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