Healthcare
Overall Reaction to Passage of Health
Care Bill
Reaction
|
Polling
Firm
|
Date
|
Adults
|
Dems
|
Reps
|
Independents
|
Good thing
|
USA Today/ Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
49%
|
79%
|
14%
|
46%
|
Bad thing
|
USA Today/ Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
40%
|
9%
|
76%
|
45%
|
Views of Health Care Bill
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Makes the most imp. changes
|
Good first step
|
Makes wrong types of
changes
|
System doesn't need
changes
|
No Opinion
|
USA Today/ Gallup
|
3/23/10
|
4%
|
48%
|
31%
|
8%
|
10%
|
Impact of Health Care passage on Obama Administration
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Major Victory
|
Minor Accomplishment
|
Not a Positive Acheivement
|
CNN
|
3/28/10
|
47%
|
20%
|
33%
|
CNN: Do
you consider the passage of the health care bill to be a major victory for
Obama, a minor accomplishment for Obama, or not a positive achievement at all?
Age in relation to
approval of Health Care Bill
Age
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Good
thing
|
Bad
thing
|
18-34
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
58%
|
31%
|
35-49
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
50%
|
40%
|
50-64
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
48%
|
41%
|
65+
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
36%
|
54%
|
Was
Vice President Biden's use of an expletive to describe the historical
importance of the passage of Health Care Reform offensive?
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
No, Not Offensive
|
Yes, Offensive
|
Fox News
|
4/8/10
|
57%
|
37%
|
Fox News: As you may have heard, Vice President Joe Biden used
foul language to describe how important he thought passage of the new health
care bill was when he whispered to President Obama "this is a big expletive
deal" -- do you think the vice president's use of foul language to describe the
bill was offensive, or not?
Do you think that
Republicans in Congress did or did not make a good faith effort to cooperate
with Obama and the Democrats on Health Care Reform?
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Did Not
|
Did
|
Not Sure/ No Opinion
|
Wash. Post
|
3/26/10
|
63%
|
31%
|
6%
|
Do
you think that Obama and the Democrats in Congress did or did not make a good
faith effort to cooperate with Republicans on Health Care Reform?
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Did Not
|
Did
|
Not Sure/ No Opinion
|
Wash. Post
|
3/26/10
|
47%
|
48%
|
5%
|
Are you more or less likely
to support candidate who voted for Health Care reform
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Support
|
Oppose
|
No Difference
|
Wash. Post
|
3/26/10
|
26%
|
32%
|
40%
|
Current
Health Care coverage in relation to approval of Health Care Bill
Current Healthcare
Coverage
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Good thing
|
Bad thing
|
Have
no health insurance
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
58%
|
29%
|
Have
employer/union-based coverage
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
45%
|
45%
|
Have
Medicare coverage
|
Gallup
|
3/22/10
|
45%
|
47%
|
What
should Congress do in the future concerning Health Care bill?
What
Congress Should do
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
%
|
Leave
the bill as it is
|
CNN
|
3/28/10
|
23%
|
Make
additional changes to increase government's involvement in the nation's
health care system
|
CNN
|
3/28/10
|
27%
|
Repeal
most of the major provisions in bill & completely replace with dif. set
of proposals
|
CNN
|
3/28/10
|
47%
|
No
Opinion
|
CNN
|
3/28/10
|
3%
|
President Obama on
Healthcare
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Unsure
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
48%
|
49%
|
3%
|
CBS
|
3/23/10
|
47%
|
48%
|
-
|
President Obama
Polling
Firm
|
Date
|
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Gallup
|
4/6/10
|
50%
|
45%
|
CNN
|
3/28/10
|
51%
|
48%
|
Wash Post/ ABC
|
3/26/10
|
53%
|
43%
|
President Obama's Ratings
Issue/Trait
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Unsure/ No Opinion
|
Personality
|
CNN
|
3/21/10
|
70%
|
25%
|
5%
|
Situation in Iraq
|
CNN
|
3/21/10
|
51%
|
46%
|
2%
|
Situation in
Afghanistan
|
Wash. Post
|
3/26/10
|
53%
|
35%
|
12%
|
Terrorism
|
CNN
|
3/21/10
|
53%
|
45%
|
2%
|
Environmental Policy
|
CNN
|
3/21/10
|
55%
|
37%
|
8%
|
Education
|
CNN
|
3/21/10
|
56%
|
41%
|
3%
|
President Obama Statements
Statement
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Does Apply
|
Doesn't Apply
|
Not Sure
|
He
understands the problems of people like you
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
56%
|
43%
|
2%
|
He
is a strong leader
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
65%
|
33%
|
2%
|
He
has brought needed change to Washington
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
54%
|
44%
|
2%
|
He
is willing to listen to different points of view
|
Wash
Post
|
3/26/10
|
68%
|
31%
|
2%
|
Congress and the U.S. Generic Ballot
Generic Ballot
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Dem
|
Rep
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
47%
|
43%
|
Gallup
|
3/21/10
|
47%
|
44%
|
Democracy
Corp
|
3/18/10
|
45%
|
42%
|
Congress' Job Rating
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Not Sure
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
24%
|
72%
|
4%
|
CBS
|
3/21/10
|
15%
|
75%
|
10%
|
Speaker of the House Job
Approval: Nancy Pelosi vs. Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Unsure/ No Opinion
|
Nancy
Pelosi
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
42%
|
46%
|
12%
|
Newt
Gingrich
|
Wash
Post
|
1/7/96
|
30%
|
61%
|
8%
|
Who do you trust to do a
better job Democrats or Republicans?
Issue
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Dems
|
Reps
|
Neither
|
Economy
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
44%
|
36%
|
16%
|
Health
Care
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
47%
|
34%
|
15%
|
Immigration
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
38%
|
35%
|
16%
|
Situation
in Afghanistan
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
43%
|
33%
|
13%
|
Federal
Budget Deficit
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
43%
|
35%
|
18%
|
Taxes
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
41%
|
39%
|
14%
|
Energy
Policy
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
49%
|
32%
|
12%
|
Party Self Identification
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Dem
|
Rep
|
Ind
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
34%
|
24%
|
38%
|
Kaiser/PSRA
|
3/15/10
|
36%
|
20%
|
35%
|
Pew
|
3/14/10
|
33%
|
22%
|
37%
|
Tea Party Movement
Tea Party Ideology
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Democrat/ Lean
Democrat
|
Republican/ Lean
Republican
|
Independent
|
Quinnipiac
|
3/24/10
|
16%
|
74%
|
5%
|
If
the 2010 House of Representatives elections were held today and a Tea Party
candidate were to run in your district, who would you vote for?
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Dem
|
Rep
|
Tea Party
|
Someone Else
|
Unsure
|
Quinnipiac
|
3/21/10
|
36%
|
25%
|
15%
|
1%
|
22%
|
Do
you consider yourself to be a supporter of the Tea Party movement?
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Supporter
|
Opponent
|
Neither
|
USA
Today/ Gallup
|
3/28/10
|
28%
|
26%
|
38%
|
The Economy
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Within next year
|
Within
next two years
|
Longer
than two years
|
Already
as strong
|
Unsure
|
Bloomberg
|
3/22/10
|
9%
|
38%
|
48%
|
2%
|
2%
|
Bloomberg: What is your expectation of when it will feel to you like
the economy is strong again? Do you think that will happen within the next
year, next two years, or longer than two years from now, or do you think it is
already as strong as it was before the recession?
US
Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment Rate
Date
|
Rate
|
March 2010
|
9.7%
|
Feb. 2010
|
9.7%
|
Jan. 2010
|
9.7%
|
March 2009
|
8.6%
|
The
Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Index Score
|
CB
|
March 10
|
52.5
|
CB
|
Feb.10
|
46.0
|
CB
|
Jan. 10
|
56.5
|
CB
|
March 09
|
26.0
|
Miscellaneous
Feelings towards Democrats,
Republicans, Sarah Palin and Tea Party Movement
|
Polling Firm
|
Date
|
Favorable
|
Unfavorable
|
No Opinion
|
The
Democratic Party
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
50%
|
45%
|
5%
|
The
Republican Party
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
40%
|
55%
|
5%
|
Sarah
Palin
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
37%
|
55%
|
7%
|
Tea
Party Movement
|
Wash.
Post
|
3/26/10
|
41%
|
39%
|
20%
|
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