Around the time Health Care Reform passed I did a post noting that, contrary to a lot of pundit commentary, reform was actually getting more popular, not less. That was true then. But contrary to my expectations, it’s not true now.
Now, I think it’s always important to point out in these cases that the movements are pretty small. What’s more, the Health Care Reform poll data set is particularly problematic since unlike the ‘congressional generic’ or presidential approval numbers, all the pollsters ask slightly different question. Indeed many pollsters actually started phrasing the question differently after Reform actually became law. All that said though, the trend looks like it’s been going south for Health Care Reform since about mid-March.
Click the TPM icon in the graph to see the full-sized graph and individual polls.
Though the absolute numbers are quite small, there’s actually a similar pivot you can see around mid-March in the numbers for the congressional generic ballot.
