2nd Current Event

"Five things polling tells us about Obamacare"

A lot of the recent polling on legislation has centered around the healthcare bill and Obamacare. The first thing that polls have found about the public opinion of Obamacare is that the public opinion is generally negative. Fifty three percent of the people asked about their feelings on Obamacare gave a "thumbs down." But though the public opinion is negative it does not necessarily mean that people want to repeal it, the second thing that polls have found. The third, that some parts of Obamacare are very popular such as the provision to get rid of lifetime caps on health insurance. This would be popular for obvious reasons. But the unpopular parts would be the idea that the government orders everyone to have government, not choose to. The fourth, is that the GOP benefits from the voting against Obamacare because they get more people in office. And the fifth and final thing that was learned from polling is that people are essentially sick and tired of hearing about it and would like to move onto different and more pressing topics.

I thought this article was very relevant to what we learned in Unit 2, about polling and how it works into American's political opinion and views and also on the political tolerance of the Affordable Care Act. The article also mentions the Pew Research poll, which were a lot of the polls we talked about in the Unit.
http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Oregon+teenagers+allegedly+lured+student+swastika+into+forehead/9537364/story.html