Daily Kos: CBS/NYT poll: Support for repeal of health care provisions nearly non-existent

I’ve always said the Dem’s lost the messaging battle here and once people knew what Health Care Reform actually entailed, they would support it…

As both Greg Sargent and Kevin Drum write, the recent CBS/NYT poll did a great service to those trying to make sense of the polling of repeal of the Affordable Care Act:

Greg:

The poll first asked people a straight-up question — should we do away with the law completely, or let it stand — and found that 40 percent favor repeal, versus 48 percent who want to leave it as is. That near-split mirrors virtually all other polls that asked the question this way — they all find some solid support for repeal.

But here’s where it gets interesting. The NYT/CBS poll then asked the pro-repeal camp whether they want to “repeal all of the health care law, or only certain parts of it.” Suddenly the number who favor full repeal drops to 20 percent — one-fifth — while 18 percent peel off and say they want to repeal “certain parts.”

When they actually asked about those certain parts, “8% are opposed to everything and 11% are opposed to the individual mandate. And that’s about it. Not a single other provision was opposed by more than 1% of the respondents. Not even higher taxes! Hell, a full 14% were supposedly in favor of repeal but couldn’t name even a single provision they disliked.”

This makes the piece-by-piece strategy the Senate Dems are devising very smart.

via Daily Kos: CBS/NYT poll: Support for repeal of health care provisions nearly non-existent.