New Poll: Voters Dislike Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling
By a 50–45 margin, voters disapprove of the court’s decision, a Newsweek/Daily Beast poll finds. Read the complete results.(below)
Voters
are reacting in broadly negative ways to the Supreme Court’s decision
to uphold the legislation known as Obamacare, a new Newsweek/Daily Beast
poll finds, with a majority disapproving of the ruling, fearing
health-care costs and taxes will rise, and preferring Mitt Romney to
President Obama on the issue.
At the same time, voters scored the ruling a short-term political win for the president by a huge margin.
Overall,
50 percent of those polled said they disapprove of the court’s 5–4
decision, while 45 percent said they support it. Consistently, a
majority of voters said that they oppose the individual mandate (53
percent); believe taxes will increase (52 percent); believe their
personal health-care costs will increase (56 percent); and disapprove of
Obama’s handling of health care in general (58 percent). Only 24
percent of those polled said that they believe the ruling will make the
country better off.
Only 24 percent of those polled said that they believe the ruling will make the country better off.
Against
Romney, Obama maintains a narrow lead in the presidential race, 47
percent to 44 percent. Twenty-one percent said that they were open to
changing their mind. State-by-state polls are more useful in predicting
the actual outcome of a presidential contest, but national horse-race
numbers are something to talk about while the election is still months
away. The president’s approval rating stands at 45 percent. Fifty-nine
percent of poll respondents said they believe the country is headed in
the wrong direction—down slightly from about a year ago, in May 2011,
when 65 percent said the country was on the wrong track.
Even
as those polled said that they prefer Romney to Obama on health care—as
well as almost every other issue, with the exception of terrorism,
foreign policy, and education—voters said that they trust Democrats more
than Republicans overall on the major questions facing the nation, 37
percent to 32 percent.
The poll was conducted by Douglas Schoen,
a Democratic pollster who has worked for the campaigns of Bill and
Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and other candidates. A national
random sample of 600 likely voters was interviewed June 28, immediately
following the announcement of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the
Affordable Care Act. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percent.National General Election Survey
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