New poll undercuts GOP claims of a midterm mandate

[kpete]

Source: McClatchy

New poll undercuts GOP claims of a midterm mandate
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of registered voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or repeal it altogether.

Driving support for the law: Voters by margins of 2-1 or greater want to keep some of its best-known benefits, such as barring insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. One thing they don't like: the mandate that everyone must buy insurance.

At the same time, the survey showed that a majority of voters side with the Democrats on another hot-button issue, extending the Bush era tax cuts that are set to expire Dec. 31 only for those making less than $250,000.



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[Lasher]

1. Hell, Republicans could win by one vote and call it a mandate.

They never say the elections in 2008 as a mandate for anything Democrats wanted to do.

[Marie Marie]

2. Yeah. funny how they never used that term when the Dems

cleaned their clocks in '08. Morans!!

[UrbScotty]

6. +1 for both of you. (nt)

[CLANG]

7. Bush lost the popular vote by millions - and said he had a mandate

After he won because the SCOTUS had 5 right-wing bastards on the court.

[Lasher]

8. I guess the misunderstanding involves where the mandate really comes from.

Republicans alway have mandates from scheming billionaires like the Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers.

[DesertFlower]

3. they've forgotten that

we still have the senate.

[stopbush]

4. Too bad the only poll that matters was the poll taken Nov. 2.

If the majority of Americans wanted to keep the new health care law or expand it, then they should have got their asses to the polls and voted for the Ds, rather than the Rs. They should have voted for an increase in House Ds, not a takeover by Rs.

Typical Americans - they believe their actions don't have any consequences. They vote against the Ds as a protest, believing that everything will just stay the same when the rs get in. HELLO!

Same thing with the bush tax cuts. The Rs said they wanted to keep them for the rich. If you wanted them to lapse on the rich, then you shouldn't have voted for the fucking Rs. Or, you shouldn't have stayed home and let the Rs take over.

Americans think they're living in a video game where their stupid moves earn them a do-over. It doesn't work that way in politics.

[demosincebirth]

5. Big fucking deal. We voted them in

[grahamhgreen]

9. REPEAL the mandate only - it's the compromise that is good for the people, sucks for big insurance.