No to ObamaCare: health law polling.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Citings - Brief article

WHEN THE Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. ObamaCare, passed on a party-line vote in March 2010, prominent Democrats predicted that despite flagging poll numbers, the law would boost the popularity of the legislators who supported it. In a Washington Post op-ed, Obama pollster Joel Benenson prophesied that not only would Americans come to like the law, Republicans would be the ones to face negative political consequences. A White House communications aide promised The New York Times that Democrats would run "aggressively" on the law. Former President Bill Clinton argued to Democratic activists in 2009 that the law's popularity would go up "the minute the president signs" the bill.

Yet polls since then consistently show that roughly half the public opposes the law, while less than 4o percent approve. New research indicates that Democrats who voted for ObamaCare, far from...