Boehner's pet issue hemorrhaging support.



For the first time since Democrats in Congress passed the national health care bill in March of last year, support for repeal of the measure has fallen below 50%. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the law, while 42% are at least somewhat opposed. This includes 38% who Strongly Favor repeal and 33% who Strongly Oppose it.

It must just kill Scott Rasmussen to have to report this

But they do hold out a bit of hope:

Rasmussen Reports has tracked support for repeal every week since the bill became law. Prior to this week, support for repeal has ranged from a low of 50% to a high of 63%. A week ago, 53% of voters favored repeal of the measure. As with all such changes in tracking poll data, it will take additional data to determine whether this result reflects an ongoing change in attitudes or is simply the result of statistical "noise."

There's always refuge in statistical noise, though the poll also found that those how think the ACA will be bad for the country has fallen to a new low in their polling, only 45% and down from 52% last week. Note that Rasmussen is slow coming to this place. Back in January, CBS polling found only a quarter of voters supporting full repeal, including just 49% of Republicans. The Kaiser Family Foundation polled last month and found just 21% behind full repeal, and 39% behind repeal and replace.

And, of course, we've pretty consistently seen that more people want to see the law expanded than want to see it repealed.