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Alexis Levinson

If voters had been aware last year that they might lose their health-care plans when Obamacare went into effect, Republican President Mitt Romney would be sitting in the White House today, according to a poll released Friday.

A Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research survey conducted from November 18-20 asked voters who supported President Barack Obama in 2012: “As you may know, millions of Americans have lost their insurance plans despite President Obama’s promise that, quote, ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it.’ If you knew in 2012 that this promise was not true, would you still have voted for Barack Obama?”

In response, 23 percent said they would not have voted to re-elect Obama, while 72 percent said they would still have voted for him. The largest number of defections were among female voters ages 18-54, 31 percent of whom said they would not have supported the president.

An ABC/Washington Post poll released earlier this week found that if they had a do-over, Romney would win 49 percent to 45 percent. The difference is within the margin of error of 3.5 percentage points, but Obama polls a lower percentage of the vote today than he did in November 2012.

A generic ballot question on the poll found likely voters favoring Republicans for 2014: 39 percent of independents said they would vote for the unspecified Republican candidate over the unspecified Democratic candidate, compared to 30 percent who said they would vote for the Democrat. Eight percent of Democrats said they would vote Republican, compared to just four percent of Republicans who said they would vote Democrat.

The poll surveyed 801 likely voters with live phone interviews and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The sample of 2012 Obama voters was 384 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.


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Re: Poll: If voters had known they’d lose insurance, Romney would have won
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2013, 12:11:43 am »
That's what happened when stupid people vote.
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Re: Poll: If voters had known they’d lose insurance, Romney would have won
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2013, 12:43:23 am »
......we'd all have a merry Christmas.

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Re: Poll: If voters had known they’d lose insurance, Romney would have won
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2013, 12:56:59 am »
Well. even Romney himself tried to warn them. I'm really sorry that Obama was re-elected, but these stupid people have only themselves to blame for believing that liar they worship.