Don’t squander your shutdown gains, Dems
By Greg Sargent, WashPost, Updated: October 21 at 9:17 am
Today, President Obama will hold an event with folks who managed to sign up for the Obamacare exchanges, despite the horrific problems that have plagued the new system. He is expected to directly address these problems, and to declare them “unacceptable.”
This comes as a new poll from CNN shows in a fresh way that the shutdown fiasco badly damaged the GOP. Yet if there is anything that could squander these political gains for Dems, it is continued problems with the implementation of the law.
The CNN poll is remarkable. It finds that 54 percent of Americans think continued GOP control of the House is bad for the country, including 59 percent of moderates and 53 percent of independents. (Only around a third of both groups say it’s good for the country.) Even a plurality of seniors — a crucial midterm constituency, along with indys, and a group Dems are working to win over — says GOP rule in the House is bad for the country, by 47-46.
The poll also finds that Americans have more confidence in Obama rather than Republicans to deal with the major issues facing the country by 44-31. Among moderates, those numbers are 51-24; among indys they are 34-30; and among seniors they are 45-33.
The poll (which does us all a service by asking about the health law in a fine grained way) also finds a total of 53 percent of Americans either favor the law or think it’s not liberal enough.
(More here.)
Today, President Obama will hold an event with folks who managed to sign up for the Obamacare exchanges, despite the horrific problems that have plagued the new system. He is expected to directly address these problems, and to declare them “unacceptable.”
This comes as a new poll from CNN shows in a fresh way that the shutdown fiasco badly damaged the GOP. Yet if there is anything that could squander these political gains for Dems, it is continued problems with the implementation of the law.
The CNN poll is remarkable. It finds that 54 percent of Americans think continued GOP control of the House is bad for the country, including 59 percent of moderates and 53 percent of independents. (Only around a third of both groups say it’s good for the country.) Even a plurality of seniors — a crucial midterm constituency, along with indys, and a group Dems are working to win over — says GOP rule in the House is bad for the country, by 47-46.
The poll also finds that Americans have more confidence in Obama rather than Republicans to deal with the major issues facing the country by 44-31. Among moderates, those numbers are 51-24; among indys they are 34-30; and among seniors they are 45-33.
The poll (which does us all a service by asking about the health law in a fine grained way) also finds a total of 53 percent of Americans either favor the law or think it’s not liberal enough.
(More here.)
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