Question: What do Americans disapprove of MORE than Affordable Care Act (aka. Obamacare)?
Answer: Shutting down the Government over the differences about the ACA.
[CBS News] Poll: Americans not happy about shutdown; more blame GOP
by Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus; CBS News -- Oct 3, 2013
On day three of the partial government shutdown, a new CBS News poll reveals that a large majority of Americans disapprove of the shutdown and more are blaming Republicans than President Obama and the Democrats for it.
Fully 72 percent of Americans disapprove of shutting down the federal government over differences on the Affordable Care Act; just 25 percent approve of this action. Republicans are divided: 48 percent approve, while 49 percent disapprove. Most tea party supporters approve of the government shutdown -- 57 percent of them do. Disapproval of the shutdown is high among Democrats and independents. This CBS News poll was conducted after the partial government shutdown began on October 1.
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Republicans in Congress receive more of the blame for the shutdown: 44 percent of Americans blame them, while 35 percent put more blame on President Obama and the Democrats in Congress. [...]
[This poll was conducted by telephone October 1-2, 2013 among 1,021 adults nationwide. Data collection was conducted on behalf of CBS News by Social Science Research Solutions of Media, Pa. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points.]
Even the 'biased and slightly unhinged' network -- promoting
"It's just a 'Government Slimdown'" -- can read the 64% writing on the wall.
Fox News Poll: Voters support delaying Obamacare, but oppose defunding it
by Dana Blanton, FoxNews.com -- Oct 03, 2013
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Meanwhile, a quarter of voters blame “Republican leaders such as John Boehner” (25 percent) for the shutdown and about the same number point the finger at President Obama (24 percent). Some 17 percent blame “Tea Party Republicans such as Ted Cruz.” Just 8 percent blame “Democratic leaders such as Harry Reid.” Another 20 percent think all of them are responsible for the shutdown.
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Views split over lawmakers’ attempts to cut off funding for the health care law. Forty-six percent see it as “an important effort.” The same number consider it “a waste of time and effort” (46 percent). Fully 74 percent of Tea Partiers and 59 percent of Republicans call it an important effort, while 61 percent of Democrats view it as a waste of time.
In the end, 64 percent of voters believe Obamacare will survive these battles and remain the law of the land. That’s up from 56 percent who felt that way in 2011.
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As you perhaps read in this recommended post, that Public Policy Polling [the firm that 'nailed' the 2012 Election] have the news that Dems have been waiting for: that these radical, ideological Republican "slim-downers" -- really have NO CLUE what the American people want.
-- and not even from their own Districts, apparently either.
[PPP] Poll: Shutdown Hurting Republicans in Battleground Districts
by Alex Seitz-Wald, NationalJournal.com -- Oct 6, 2013
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"Democrats must pick up 17 seats to win control of the House. These poll results make clear that if the election were held today, such a pickup would be well within reach," said pollster Jim Williams. "The surveys challenge the conventional wisdom that gerrymandering has put the House out of reach for Democrats."
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Democrats are hoping to repeat their experience with the 1995 and 1996 shutdowns, which helped lead to the reelection of President Clinton and to modest success for House Democrats.
See the full list of districts polled at a glance here and individual districts here: CA-10, CA-21, CA-31, CO-06, FL-02, FL-10, FL-13, IA-03, IA-04, KY-06, IL-13, MI-01, MI-07, MI-11, NV-03, NY-11, NY-19, NY-23, OH-06, OH-14 PA-07, PA-08, VA-02, and WI-07.
Are the American Voters to have the last laugh about the Hatriot Clowns who dare to call themselves
our Representatives?
We shall see ...
Vote the fools out -- if they fail to respect our long-established tradition of 'orderly' rule of law.
It's only fair, that they are finally 'rewarded' for their constant damn-the-people obstruction.