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Omaha Steve

(99,665 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:02 PM Apr 2014

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 year’s elections, and over half are more inclined to back the candidate who opposes the health care law.

That’s 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/
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Fox News Poll: Independents more likely to back anti-ObamaCare candidates (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2014 OP
Sure, because people like Helen Borg Apr 2014 #1
Fox definition of "Independant voters" - Mr.Bill Apr 2014 #2
+1 well said lunasun Apr 2014 #8
Libertarians and Teapukes, actually. n/t freshwest Apr 2014 #35
Fox news poll? Bahhh haaaa haaaa OffWithTheirHeads Apr 2014 #3
Fox poles have always been absolutely right. Ask President Romney. lob1 Apr 2014 #4
:D tofuandbeer Apr 2014 #34
Like any poll, it depnds on how the question is framed Zambero Apr 2014 #5
^^^ BINGO!!!! And therein lies our problem - lack of proper messaging groundloop Apr 2014 #24
Awesome counter points. n/t freshwest Apr 2014 #36
Tic Toc Tic Toc tavernier Apr 2014 #6
I hope you are right yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #7
Question 26: "How often do you think Barack Obama lies to the country on important matters?" DCBob Apr 2014 #9
Posted to for later analysis ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2014 #10
Was this done by the same guys on Fox who had 129% approve and disapprove on one of their polls? Rozlee Apr 2014 #11
FOX News Poll ? Really? Like why is this even posted on here. DUers aren't stupid. YOHABLO Apr 2014 #12
As I have said on this board before: bluestateguy Apr 2014 #13
So, Republicans who don't want to call themselves Republicans? Drunken Irishman Apr 2014 #14
It's no secret that Tea Party members are masquerading themselves as an independents TRoN33 Apr 2014 #15
why antagonize people that are happy with what they have? quadrature Apr 2014 #16
We may not like this news but we had better pay attention to it. jimlup Apr 2014 #17
Nah... seabeckind Apr 2014 #21
The "poll" is bullsh!t seabeckind Apr 2014 #18
Fox "News" strikes again. Dawson Leery Apr 2014 #19
Fox "News" Poll??? Doctor_J Apr 2014 #20
Know thine enemy and his tactics. n/t seabeckind Apr 2014 #22
Exactly Omaha Steve Apr 2014 #31
STAY THE COURSE!!!! Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2014 #23
A typical Faux News polling sample: DeSwiss Apr 2014 #25
What is an independent? A tea bagger would consider themselves independent though their politics lostincalifornia Apr 2014 #26
Independents are intelligent and intelligent people don't watch FOX appleannie1 Apr 2014 #27
Riiiight... sakabatou Apr 2014 #28
So, "independent" is now another word for Kelvin Mace Apr 2014 #29
Those "Independents" they asked are most likely savalez Apr 2014 #30
Hey Fuks...how about a poll from a credible source instead. SoapBox Apr 2014 #32
YEah because their polling was so great in 2012! NYtoBush-Drop Dead Apr 2014 #33
Not this Independent. n/t crim son Apr 2014 #37
on what planet MissMillie Apr 2014 #38
Its just another Fox News tactic to "decide" for their audience LiberalLovinLug Apr 2014 #39

Zambero

(8,965 posts)
5. Like any poll, it depnds on how the question is framed
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:18 PM
Apr 2014

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)
24. ^^^ BINGO!!!! And therein lies our problem - lack of proper messaging
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:49 PM
Apr 2014

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.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
7. I hope you are right
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:33 PM
Apr 2014

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)
9. Question 26: "How often do you think Barack Obama lies to the country on important matters?"
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:43 PM
Apr 2014

This was the question just prior to the ones about Obamacare. Classic push poll technique.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
10. Posted to for later analysis ...
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:52 PM
Apr 2014

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)
11. Was this done by the same guys on Fox who had 129% approve and disapprove on one of their polls?
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:55 PM
Apr 2014

Just askin'.

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
13. As I have said on this board before:
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:57 PM
Apr 2014

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.

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
15. It's no secret that Tea Party members are masquerading themselves as an independents
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:04 PM
Apr 2014

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)
16. why antagonize people that are happy with what they have?
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:05 PM
Apr 2014

why kick sand in the face of the helpless?

(almost helpless, they will vote)

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
17. We may not like this news but we had better pay attention to it.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:05 PM
Apr 2014

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.

seabeckind

(1,957 posts)
21. Nah...
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:32 PM
Apr 2014

"Most voters say ObamaCare will play an important role in their vote in this year’s 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)
18. The "poll" is bullsh!t
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:28 PM
Apr 2014

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?

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
25. A typical Faux News polling sample:
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:52 PM
Apr 2014




- 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)
26. What is an independent? A tea bagger would consider themselves independent though their politics
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:56 PM
Apr 2014

Indicate they are republican through and through

Example, Cruz, lee, and all the other crazies

LiberalLovinLug

(14,175 posts)
39. Its just another Fox News tactic to "decide" for their audience
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 02:09 PM
Apr 2014

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.

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