In what it calls “a dramatic rebuke to a sitting president and freshly minted statute,” National Journal writes that likely voters favor the repeal of Obamacare by a margin of 10 percentage points: 51 to 41 percent. The newly released Congressional Connection Poll, which National Journal conducted with the Society for Human Resource Management and the Pew Research Center, also found that, among independents, support for repeal was even higher: 53 percent among registered independent voters (and, based on splits in other polls, probably higher still among likely independent voters). In addition, nearly a quarter of registered Democrats (23 percent) support repeal.
After presenting the numbers, National Journal writes:
That dynamic — the majority of next week’s likely electorate standing directly opposed to President Obama’s cornerstone legislative achievement — points to the challenge Democrats face in stemming this year’s GOP tide…
