Poll: Anti-ObamaCare Sentiment Drove Massachusetts Upset

According to a new poll released by the Washington Post, the Democrats' ObamaCare bill and other big-government programs absolutely were the driving force behind Scott Brown's victory.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35019673/ns/politics-washington_post

Sixty-three percent of Massachusetts special-election voters say the country is seriously off track, and Brown captured two-thirds of these voters in his victory over Democrat Martha Coakley. In November 2008, Obama scored a decisive win among the more than eight in 10 Massachusetts voters seeing the country as off course.

Nearly two-thirds of Brown's voters say their vote was intended at least in part to express opposition to the Democratic agenda in Washington, but few say the senator-elect should simply work to stop it. Three-quarters of those who voted for Brown say they would like him to work with Democrats to get Republican ideas into legislation in general; nearly half say so specifically about health-care legislation.

For those liberals who are still in denial and think ObamaCare and other Democrat big-government programs had nothing to do with Coakley's loss, you might want to look at what the voters themselves say. They think government is already too big.

When Obama was elected, 63 percent of Massachusetts voters said government should do more to solve problems, according to exit polling then. In the new poll, that number slipped to 50 percent, with about as many, 47 percent, saying that government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals.

So, before you push ahead with your agenda on the theory that you can convince us idiots they're really a good idea after all, you might want to consider this: If 47% of voters in ultra-liberal Massachusetts think that government is doing far too much under PresBo, then maybe that percentage is far higher in less-liberal areas of the country.

Just a thought. But one you should consider.