According to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, public support for President Obama’s health care overhaul plan is still sinking like a rock. Nationwide, a mere 41% of Americans now approve of the health care plan being rammed down their throats by the Democrats in Congress and the White House.
For months the Democrats have asserted that the “minority” opposing health care reform were doing so because the President hadn’t done a good enough job at making his case with the American people, but it’s now quite clear that the more he talks about it, the less they like it. It’s also crystal clear that the folks who oppose the plan are in no way a minority as today’s Rasmussen poll shows. The Democrats in Congress would be wise to come to grips with the fact that if only 41% of the nation as a whole approves of the plan, then the group opposing it MUST include a great number of Democrat voters – probably more than enough to easily send a lot of Democrats packing come the mid-term elections.
Considering numbers like these, it’s hard for this country boy to figure out exactly why the Democrats in the House and Senate aren’t running away from this plan at a full sprint. My only guess is they are apparently willing to sacrifice their own cushy jobs in Washington in order to make sure that President Obama “succeeds” at his. Come to think of it, that wouldn’t be a bad thing, especially since the same poll shows that Obama’s personal approval rating has now dipped below 50% for the first time.
The Republicans are beginning to smell blood, and the Democrats simply don’t know when to drop their swords in order to save their own political hides. Politically, 2010 and 2012 are shaping up to be rather interesting years.