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Ravi
11-27-2013, 10:44 AM
The latest CNN/ORC International poll (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/27/cnnorc-poll-are-obamacares-flaws-fixable/) showed that 53 percent of Americans think it's too early to characterize the health care law as a failure, while 54 percent expressed optimism that the problems currently plaguing Obamacare be resolved.

Almost four in 10 called the law a failure and 45 percent said its flaws will never be fixed.
The survey also showed a majority of Americans (58 percent) are opposed to the Affordable Care Act — a continuation of a recent trend (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/more-historically-bad-poll-numbers-for-obama-obamacare) —but the pollsters provided context for the source of the opposition.
Forty-one percent said they oppose the law because it's too liberal, while 14 percent said it isn't liberal enough. As CNN noted, this means that 54 percent either support the Affordable Care Act or believe it isn't liberal enough.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-majority-optimistic-that-obamacare-problems-will-be-fixed

Mainecoons
11-27-2013, 10:48 AM
Looked at your source. Notably missing is the profile of those 834 people surveyed in a country of over 300 million. CNN polls are notorious for skewed polling.

Keep living in your fantasy land, Ravi. You're fun to watch.

:grin:

iustitia
11-27-2013, 10:55 AM
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

1. Show me a poll that says one thing and I'll show you one that says the opposite.

2. Either the poll is skewed or the people are stupid. Either is believable.

Nothing is ever to be gained, neither validity nor truth, from poll numbers.

Ravi
11-27-2013, 11:00 AM
:rolleyes: Y'all like polls except when they don't support your hopes.

AmazonTania
11-27-2013, 11:04 AM
What about the mere 18% of Americans (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57611567/) who have expressed an interest in enrolling in Obamacare?

Green Arrow
11-27-2013, 12:17 PM
:rolleyes: Y'all like polls except when they don't support your hopes.

Not so. I've been consistently anti-poll.

Chris
11-27-2013, 12:22 PM
I like trends. Individual polls reveal little to nothing.

Chris
11-27-2013, 12:22 PM
:rolleyes: Y'all like polls except when they don't support your hopes.

So I take it you like this poll. Why?

Blackrook
11-27-2013, 03:13 PM
It doesn't matter what polls say. Obamacare is doomed. They're not going to recruit enough healthy young people to sign up to pay for the older people who get sick and have health problems.

Toro
11-27-2013, 05:17 PM
The longer the problems of Obamacare stay in the headlines, the more it will hurt the Democrats.

If the problems get fixed soon, then it will be a non-issue for the Democrats in 2014. But if it remains an issue, voters will question the competency of the Democrats and will likely punish the party at the polls.