Here are the major initial points of interest in the CNN/OR results:
· 59% oppose the Democrats’ health care bill, while only 39% favor it.
· 70% say the federal budget deficit will go up under the Democrats’ health care bill; only 12% believe it will go down.
· 56% say the bill creates “too much government involvement in the nation's health care system,” 28% say about the right amount, while 16% say not enough.
· 62% say they'll pay more for medical care under the Democrats’ health care bill.
· 47% say they and their families will be worse off under the Democrats’ health care bill; 33% say things will be about the same, and only 19% think they’ll be better off.
· 45% say seniors on Medicare will be worse off; 34% say things will be about the same, and only 20% think they’ll be better off.
Numbers like those suggest the unreality of the Democrats' assumption that, as the smoke clears from the debate and people become more familiar with what's actually in the bill, they will become more favorably disposed to it in the months ahead.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
CNN poll: a plague on incumbents
Just when you thought Congress couldn't reach a new low, it did.
Only a third of US voters think their Congress members have earned the right to get sent back next year -- a record-low number, a poll released yesterday shows.
Thirty-four percent of voters queried think members of the House and the Senate ought to be re-elected -- while an astonishing 63 percent were in favor of throwing the bums out, the new CNN poll showed.
That's the worst performance for Congress in the history of the network's polling -- the latest red flag for the floundering Democratic leadership as it heads into an anti-incumbent voter wave just eight months before the midterm elections.
"This is not a good year to be an incumbent, regardless of which party you belong to," CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
"Voters seem equally angry at both Republicans and Democrats this year."
And the electorate is unsettled all around. Forty-five percent of the voters say they will back a Democrat in their congressional district, and 47 percent say they will go for the Republican -- whoever that may be in either case.
Only a third of US voters think their Congress members have earned the right to get sent back next year -- a record-low number, a poll released yesterday shows.
Thirty-four percent of voters queried think members of the House and the Senate ought to be re-elected -- while an astonishing 63 percent were in favor of throwing the bums out, the new CNN poll showed.
That's the worst performance for Congress in the history of the network's polling -- the latest red flag for the floundering Democratic leadership as it heads into an anti-incumbent voter wave just eight months before the midterm elections.
"This is not a good year to be an incumbent, regardless of which party you belong to," CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
"Voters seem equally angry at both Republicans and Democrats this year."
And the electorate is unsettled all around. Forty-five percent of the voters say they will back a Democrat in their congressional district, and 47 percent say they will go for the Republican -- whoever that may be in either case.
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