Fox News Poll: Independents more likely to back anti-ObamaCare candidates
Source: Faux News
By Dana Blanton
Most voters say ObamaCare will play an important role in their vote in this years elections, and over half are more inclined to back the candidate who opposes the health care law.
Thats according to a Fox News poll released Monday.
The new poll asks voters what they would do if the only difference between two congressional candidates is that one promises to fight for the health care law and the other promises to fight against it.
By a 53-39 percent margin, more voters say they would back the anti-ObamaCare candidate.
FULL story and video at link.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/21/fox-news-poll-independents-more-likely-to-back-anti-obamacare-candidates/?cmpid=prn_o_o
Complete poll here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2014/04/21/fox-news-poll-independents-more-likely-to-back-anti-obamacare-candidates/
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)To go bankrupt or die when disease strikes. It's obvious!
Mr.Bill
(24,304 posts)Teabaggers.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)I pull better shit out of my, well, you know.
lob1
(3,820 posts)Zambero
(8,965 posts)Would you support a candidate who favors an insurer's right to cancel your policy if you were to get sick?
Should individuals with pre-existing conditions have a right to purchase affordable health insurance?
Should seniors pay less for their prescription drugs?
Should young adults be able to stay on their parents health insurance policies?
Should you be subject to a lifetime cap on health insurance payments?
Do you believe screenings and preventive care will reduce the incidence of serious medical complications down the road, and if so should insurance policies include coverage for them?
Are you willing to pay higher premiums to compensate hospitals for unrecovered costs, so that others can continue to get their care from emergency rooms, even if they could have afforded health insurance?
Would you be inclined to vote for a candidate who favors the repeals of Obamacare?
It's entirely possible that a person would vote "yes" on the last question, while supporting most if not all of the law's individual provisions. Ignorance is not always bliss.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)Democratic candidates should be shouting this message from every rooftop, yet many are still backing away from it. EVERY time a GOPer says they intend to repeal Obamacare they should be hit hard with this message.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)tavernier
(12,393 posts)What a Croc.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)November will be telling. I just find it hard to believe that people are going to vote out Democrats over ACA, but it could happen. We will see. GOTV is the key to maintaining the Senate.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)This was the question just prior to the ones about Obamacare. Classic push poll technique.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)But what surprised me is the interest the under 35 vote is showing and the numbers some to suggest that Democrats will not see a huge drop off among it's traditional coalition and the gop will not see much of a gain. (but I have to go through the poll in more depth ... I was looking for specific numbers for specific groups.)
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Just askin'.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I no longer care if Obamacare is popular or not.
We're talking about people's basic human right to have health care and to live. That stands above the whims of Mr. and Mrs. Stupid American Voter. There are some things you just don't put up for a popularity contest.
If providing healthcare to 30 million people is not popular with many Americans, then that's just too bad.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)in order to claim that independents would always be on Republican side. Virginia and North Carolina has proven that. These faux-independents are a joke.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)why kick sand in the face of the helpless?
(almost helpless, they will vote)
jimlup
(7,968 posts)People have been propagandized on this issue to the extreme. They don't honestly know the truth and they don't follow issues like we do. They are uninformed and don't know the difference between Faux news and regular news. They need to be educated and informed and our candidates will need to do that. If they don't stand behind Obamacare and explain that it is working and that people are getting insurance because of it - then honestly I think they deserve to lose.
"Most voters say ObamaCare will play an important role in their vote in this years elections, and over half are more inclined to back the candidate who opposes the health care law."
Like I say below, gop trying to put their thumb on the scale and move the focus away from populist issues.
Move it to the stuff they want to talk about. Guns, gays, bibles -- and taxes. Be afraid, be afraid...
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)When I got to the questions about the IRS and Benghazi it was obvious that it was a push poll. IMO (not as a result of a scientific poll) the only people who have anything but a passing interest in these topics as a controversy are fox viewers.
Pretty much no one else really gives a sh!t cause they're in survival mode and more worried about where their next job is coming from.
So then the question becomes: why push this push poll?
Maybe to get those right-leaning democrats in a contested district to be against the ACA? Thereby leveling the playing field so that the vote isn't a referundum of populism vs the status quo?
Well, that and to give a link for the garbage emails that fly around the wingnutosphere.
Is my tinfoil on straight?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Read the questions, this is a shameless push poll.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I didn't think such shit was allowed here
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,665 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- It makes sense when you understand that everyone at Faux News is alien. The actual numbers are miniscule once you do the alien/human conversions.......
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)Indicate they are republican through and through
Example, Cruz, lee, and all the other crazies
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)So their poll is skewed.
sakabatou
(42,159 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)"moron"?
Who knew?
savalez
(3,517 posts)just Republicans ashamed to admit it.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...'cause you are not credible.
NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)LOL.
crim son
(27,464 posts)MissMillie
(38,562 posts)would the ACA be the only difference between 2 candidates? (except in a primary)
LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)FAUX News rabid watchers are the type that follows the crowd. So FAUX News released these fake polls because they know the type of fragile minds they are dealing with. These are the same ones, when in school as kids, followed the most popular kids, mean girls, and bullies. Laughing with them when they abused others because they live in fear of being on the "outside".
So when they see a majority is proclaimed in a poll, it confirms for them their uninformed views, solidifies them. They may be stupid, but those that run FAUX News are not.