"A recent CNBC poll found more Americans oppose ObamaCare than oppose the Affordable Care Act. But more Americans support ObamaCare than the Affordable Care Act.
Confused? That would be understandable given that these are two names for the same law. CNBC polled two different groups, using "ObamaCare" for one and "Affordable Care Act" for the other. Forty-six percent of the group asked about "ObamaCare" opposed it. But only 37% of those asked about the health law opposed it. Conversely, ObamaCare had higher support than the law. As CNBC put it, Obama's name raises the positives and the negatives.
"As a rational matter, this is nuts. An informed person should have the same opinions -- positive or negative -- about a piece of legislation regardless of what it's called. But because politics is so often driven by our attitudes toward specific personalities, for many Americans, their attitudes toward a monumentally significant piece of legislation are driven by something as petty as whether "Obama" is in the title." Read it all. [ECS]
Confused? That would be understandable given that these are two names for the same law. CNBC polled two different groups, using "ObamaCare" for one and "Affordable Care Act" for the other. Forty-six percent of the group asked about "ObamaCare" opposed it. But only 37% of those asked about the health law opposed it. Conversely, ObamaCare had higher support than the law. As CNBC put it, Obama's name raises the positives and the negatives.
"As a rational matter, this is nuts. An informed person should have the same opinions -- positive or negative -- about a piece of legislation regardless of what it's called. But because politics is so often driven by our attitudes toward specific personalities, for many Americans, their attitudes toward a monumentally significant piece of legislation are driven by something as petty as whether "Obama" is in the title." Read it all. [ECS]
