Poll Numbers Bad For Democrats On ObamaCare

Last week, after liberals managed to ram through their highly partisan ObamaCare law, they liked ONE poll. That poll was the USA Today/Gallup poll that showed 49% percent of respondents calling passage "a good thing" and just 40 percent saying it was a bad thing. The REASON they liked only this poll, is that it was the only poll showing more people favoring the new law than opposing it. Though most other polls did show a positive jump in approval ratings, they still showed those opposing outnumbering those favoring.

Somewhat to their dismay, that same poll one week later shows 50% opposing the law and 47% favoring it.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0310/about_that_poll_1834923c-21db-4bba-8e45-17a81a763935.html

"There was on the Democratic side a burst of enthusiasm after it passed saying, 'Ah, now voters are being won over,' " says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies polling. "The cumulating data this past seven days says that, no, a miracle didn't happen and the public didn't suddenly change their views on this. It means that the Democrats still face a tough sell of a public close to evenly divided on this and even slightly more opposed than in favor, and that difficulty didn't go away with passage."

A one-day poll taken immediately after a major event is subject not only to sampling error but also to very short-term effects, he says. On the day after the bill passed, he notes, "the news cycle was dominated by the positive side of the story and only a bit by the Republicans' rebuttal to that."

Yes, Democrats enjoyed a short-term boost from passage, but continued polling indicates that the miracle they told Congressional Democrats to depend on hasn't yet materialized.