In the wake of the best performance by Republicans in a House election since 1938 (the last time Republicans gained this many seats) and arguably since 1894 (the last time Republicans gained this many seats and emerged as the majority party), President Obama and his allies are trying to interpret exit poll results as showing that Americans are split down the middle on the Democrats’ centerpiece legislation: Obamacare.
Exit polling shows that 48 percent of voters favor the repeal of Obamacare, 16 percent favor keeping it as it is, and 31 percent favor expanding it (while 5 percent declined to answer). President Obama cites this as evidence that, in reference to the Democrats’ unilateral passage of Obamacare, “one out of two voters think it was the right thing to do.”
