NBC News/WSJ Poll: Just 12% in Key Trump Counties Back GOP Health Care Effort

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Source: nbc






Jul 18 2017, 5:00 pm ET


by Mark Murray

Just 12 percent of Americans living in the counties that fueled Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election support the Republican Party's efforts on health care, according to results from the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of these "Trump counties."

Asked their views on the health care legislation passed by the House of Representatives in May and backed by President Trump, 12 percent of the respondents in these counties — consisting of Republicans, Democrats and independents — called the bill a good idea, while 41 percent said it was a bad idea. Forty-seven percent had no opinion or say they’re not sure.

Even among Trump voters in these counties, only 25 percent believe the House GOP health care bill is a good idea, 16 percent think it’s a bad idea and 59 percent have no opinion or are unsure.

That’s compared with 75 percent of Hillary Clinton voters in these counties, who say the legislation is a bad idea, zero percent who say it’s a good idea and 26 percent who have no opinion or are unsure.

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This NBC/WSJ poll's sample was taken from 439 counties in 16 states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin — that either flipped from President Barack Obama to Trump, or where Trump greatly outpaced Mitt Romney's performance in 2012. ...................................

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Jorge Antonio‏ @jorge_aguilarDC 9h9 hours ago

Numbers are as brutal as what they were offering. #Trumpcare #protectourcare #Stopthesabotage

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[OnDoutside]

1. Does anyone else find it amazing how these f#@ers got themselves

SO well informed on Dear Leader's Healthcare Final Solution plan, yet think he's the risen Jim Jones in everything else ???

Doesn't that strike you as odd ?

[beachbum bob]

2. how do 47% have no opinion?

really?....are they that uncaring about their own health issues or others? Or that moronic?

[Blue_Adept]

3. They're not paying attention

These are folks that are just working, dealing with kids, and little else beyond that. A number of my circle are like that and simply never see politics because of it. They don't actively seek it out for the little time that they have to themselves.

[Chemisse]

4. It's never been about constituents begging for repeal.

This has always been driven by Congressional Republicans. They say they promised the people they would get rid of Obamacare, but how many of these people asked for that?

[beachbum bob]

5. there is a hardcore batshit crazy base element that finds all things government to be atrocious

they do not want ACA.....or Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid or Foodstamps or Unemployment Benefits or Welfare..............Heritage Foundation is a perfect example of a rightwing thinktank that has advocated for years cutting or eliminating these programs and for the most part, House Republicans have been tryin.

The Ann Rand bullshit mentality. When it comes down to specifics, many voters say no, even conservative ones.

[broadcaster90210]

6. Doesn't mean they won't vote for another GOP pussy grabbing racist.

Add in some rigged voting machins and voter suppression and we are near the end of America.

But .... every goddamn Dem voter MUST vote and MUST make sure their registration is up to date. And for god's sake cote in off year elections esp State ones. The recent Oaklahoma victories provide a ray of hope.

[Cosmocat]

7. 99% of who would walk over glass bare foot

To vote for him, and their douchebag congressmen/senators cause liberals, far left, socialism, benghazi, Christian, etc.

[haveahart]

8. Please watch the CNN special on Saturday at 9PM. About Russian illegals and plants inside

US agencies etc.

[Juliusseizure]

9. Race Trumps Everything

Until they're personally negatively and significantly effected, and that may not sway them either, they're more or less loyal to Trump. Obama made them irrationally fear a black/minority/democratic takeover of the US and planet.