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Health Care Reform
Support for Health Care Reform Jumps to 51%, Highest Total Yet
Support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats continues to grow following the president's speech to Congress last Wednesday night. It has now risen to the highest level yet measured, and, for the first time, shows a slight uptick in support among Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party.

Fifty-one percent (51%) of all voters nationwide now favor the plan while 46% are opposed. In June , as the public debate was just beginning, 50% favored the plan and 45% were opposed.

Support for the plan fell over the summer and reached a point where 53% of voters opposed it. However, in the days following the president's speech, support for the plan has been moving up on a fairly consistent basis.

Still, the intensity gap continues to favor those who oppose the plan. Currently, 28% Strongly Favor the proposed reform while 38% are Strongly Opposed. (see day-by-day numbers ). In late August, 23% were strongly in favor of the plan and 43% were strongly opposed.

Rasmussen Reports will continue tracking support for the proposals on a daily basis over the next several days and will release new updates each morning at 9 EDT. It remains to be seen how long the bounce will continue, how high it will go and where the numbers will settle.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll is another indicator of the speech's impact. Obama has received a personal bounce in his approval ratings since Wednesday. Job Approval ratings are updated each morning at 9:30 EDT.

Bounces from a speech take time to develop in part because only about 15% of Americans actually watched it. Most learn about it from the news coverage of the past several days or from discussions with family and friends.
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Initially, the increases in support were restricted to Democrats. However, today's update is the first to register modest gains among both Republicans and unaffiliated voters. Forty-seven percent (47%) of unaffiliated voters now favor the plan while 50% are opposed. Those figures include 19% who Strongly Favor the plan and 38% who are Strongly Opposed.
Premium Members can see full demographic crosstabs for results released today , Sunday , Saturday , Friday, Thursday and, for comparison, late August .

Fifty-five percent (55%) now say that health care reform is at least somewhat likely to pass this year. That's the highest total yet and includes 19% who say passage is Very Likely.

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Of note is this is one pollster that dependably polls lower for Obama than other ones. I used it during the Dem primaries in other words ;\)

Also of note is it's better numbers now then what they were before partisan republicans spent the summer shouting out various lies about health care reform.

I like Mondays

Fair play!