Polls show that Obamacare, which was highly unpopular at the time of its passage, is even less popular today. And Gallup’s most recently released poll offers further evidence to that effect. However, the poll’s headline—“One Year Later, Americans Split on Healthcare Law” — suggests otherwise and is exactly the kind of straw at which the Obama administration likes to grasp. So the headline’s claim is worth addressing.

Gallup elaborates a bit in its write-up: “One year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, Americans are divided on its passage, with 46% saying it was a good thing and 44% saying it was a bad thing.” But Gallup also references “polling conducted a year ago, just before President Obama signed the bill into law.” It writes, “At that point, in response to a slightly different question” (the only differences were that “yesterday” became “a year ago,” “the U.S. House of Representatives” became “Congress,” and “bill” became “law”), “49% said the law was a good thing, while 40% said it was a bad thing.”