The Supreme Court Bump

Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:26 am by Bob Cesca

The new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows a five percent bump in support for the ACA following the Supreme Court decision last week.

The number of registered voters who support the law rose from 43 percent before the decision to 48 percent afterward. Opposition went down to 52 percent from 57 percent.

The numbers are still not where the they should be had the Obama administration and the Democrats been doing a better job at describing what’s in the law. This is a crucial part of the deal at this point: if Americans are still this divided and unaware about the bill, and Mitt Romney is elected in November, the law will be repealed.

(Thanks to the Law Office of Maria Aspiazu)

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  • i_a_c

    I’m done blaming Democrats for messaging. I blame the braindead media which spent all day and all night repeating the “government takeover” canard and discussing whether Obama will order his death panel to kill grandma, or not.

    • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

      Yup.

      If a Democrat speaks in the forest, but no media listen, did s/he really say anything?

      • i_a_c

        The not-problem with Democrats is that they actually have policy issues to discuss, and the media will have none of it. They’d rather act like a “he said, she said” gossip rag, or pretend like the election is a sport, rather than actually discuss policy.

        “As Congress debates health care reform, Republicans are calling the initiative a government takeover death panel. Who does this benefit in November? Here to debate are Republican strategist blah blah blah.”

        There’s no winning when the media is complicit in the muddying of issues.

        • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

          Isn’t that what I said? :)

          • i_a_c

            Of course. It’s an echo chamber here after all. ;-)

    • MrDHalen

      i_a_c, I completely agree!!!

      I don’t just blame the media anymore either, I also blame the ADULTS who don’t take the time to do their civic duty of being informed citizens.

  • gescove

    Agree with i_a_c. If your primary sources of “information” are Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, no amount of better messaging will have any impact.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000098740588 Jeremy Grunloh

    “had the Obama administration and the Democrats been doing a better job at describing what’s in the law. ”

    I’m so tired of hearing this. The White House has ALWAYS done everything it could to explain what’s in the bill. It is NOT their fault we have a media that doesn’t report the entirety of what they say and/or pretends to not understand and/or immediately turns to an army of Repubican pundits and operatives who then proceed to lie their collective ass off about it.

  • D_C_Wilson

    Right now, every wingnut pundit is repeating the mantra that the mandate is the “biggest tax increase evah!” Even though this is demonstrably not true, they are going to keep repeating it until it becomes the new conventional wisdom.

    It doesn’t matter how good one side is good at messaging when the other side is acting as a unified front dedicated to the big lie.