Majority of Voters Say Obama, Not Trump, Responsible for State of Health Care, ACA
http://morningconsult.com/2018/10/26/majority-of-voters-say-obama-not-trump-responsible-for-state-of-health-care-aca/
As Democrats and Republicans battle to establish themselves as the party of health care with the Nov. 6 election rapidly approaching, more voters hold former President Barack Obama responsible for the condition of the U.S. health care system and the Affordable Care Act than they have since Morning Consult began polling on this topic a year ago - and the shift is driven by Democrats and independents.
In Morning Consult/Politico surveys conducted Oct. 19-23, 2017, March 8-12, 2018, and Oct. 11-15, 2018, registered voters were asked whether Obama or President Donald Trump is most responsible for the current state of the health care system and the Affordable Care Act.
In the October 2017 poll, the share of voters who chose Obama as responsible for the state of health care was 50 percent, then dropped to 44 percent in the March poll.
But in the October 2018 poll of 1,961 respondents, the share of voters who chose Obama not only bounced back toward the October 2017 figure, but surpassed it - 56 percent of respondents said they hold the former president responsible for the condition of the health care system, more than twice as many as the 24 percent who chose Trump. All the polls had a margin of error of 2 percentage points. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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