The April Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, which finds that only 35 percent of American have a favorable opinion of Obamacare, has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention. But this top-line finding misses a more compelling point:  Even Kaiser, the most reliably pro-Obamacare of all of the Obamacare polling outfits, says that the overhaul’s popularity has dropped dramatically from the time of its passage.  And given how unpopular Obamacare was at the time of its passage — when the Democrats rammed it through against the clear will of the American people and without a single Republican vote — that’s saying something.

In April of 2010, in its first poll taken after House and Senate Democrats passed Obamacare and President Obama signed it into law, Kaiser claimed that 46 percent of Americans had “a generally favorable opinion” of the overhaul, while 40 percent had “a generally unfavorable opinion.”  So, according to Kaiser, Obamacare then enjoyed a net favorability rating of +6 points.  Now, three years later, Kaiser says that only 35 percent of Americans hold “a generally favorable opinion” of Obamacare, while 40 percent hold “a generally unfavorable opinion” of it — for a net favorability rating of minus-5 points.  As this 11-point drop in support suggests, Americans aren’t warming up to Obamacare over time.  (Weak-kneed Republicans, such as those considering voluntarily implementing Obamacare’s massive Medicaid expansion in their states, should take note.)