Fantastic new poll shows support for repealing Obamacare among N.J. voters

03/04/2014

 New poll shows support for repealing Obamacare among voters 

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A new poll found that by a 51 percent to 43 percent margin, registered voters favor repealing the new health insurance law.

New polls show a slim majority of New Jersey voters supports repealing President Obama’s 2010 health insurance overhaul while Hillary Clinton leads Governor Christie in a 2016 presidential matchup and Sen. Cory Booker is well-positioned to win re-election.

A poll by Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics released Tuesday found that by a 51 percent to 43 percent margin, registered voters favor repealing the health insurance law known as Obamacare.

Pollster David Redlawsk noted that in a different poll taken in January, 54 percent said they somewhat or strongly supported the law, while 40 percent said they somewhat or strongly opposed it.

“I would not say opinion flipped, because the questions were different and question-wording matters a lot,” Redlawsk said. “The combination of the questions does suggest opinion is split in New Jersey.”
Other surveys bear that out.

A Monmouth University poll in December found 46 percent had a very or somewhat favorable opinion of the law, while 40 percent had a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion. A Quinnipiac University poll in October found 51 percent of likely New Jersey voters supported the law while 44 percent opposed it.

In a hypothetical matchup in the 2016 presidential race, Clinton, a Democrat and former Secretary of State, led Christie 51 percent to 41 percent among New Jersey voters, Eagleton found in its latest poll.

Clinton also led Christie by 36 percentage points in New York and 8 points in Virginia, according to polls taken by colleges in those states and released in coordination with Eagleton’s. In all three states, however, Christie, a Republican, came closer to Clinton than two other potential candidates, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Booker, a Democrat and former mayor of Newark, is preparing to seek a full six-year term this fall after being elected in October to serve the remainder of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s term.

Among registered voters, 55 percent said Booker should be re-elected while 33 percent said it was “time for someone else,” a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll released Monday found.

That poll showed at least 90 percent of voters did not know enough to have a positive or negative opinion about five possible Republican opponents.

Monmouth’s poll of 690 registered voters taken Feb. 19 to 23 has a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points. Eagleton surveyed 729 registered voters taken Feb. 22-28 and the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

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