CNN: Support for ObamaCare plummets to 35% in new poll

This is not how it was supposed to be. Early in December President Obama announced a new initiative that was supposed to turn the unpleasant tide of negative public opinion. If you recall, the plan was to give a speech a day extolling the virtues of the Affordable Care Act so that even the dumb schmucks on the right would be forced to recognize its brilliance.

No one seems to be entirely sure if the whole "speech-a-day" thing actually happened. There's so much ObamaCare "white noise" coming from the administration that was hard to determine what, exactly, would qualify as part of the new effort. If they really spent the last month selling the ACA on a daily basis, no one seems to have noticed. There was only one plan that actually managed to stick out and grab some media attention: The President asked moms to head for the grocery stores, where they would start selling complete strangers on the sheer genius of his agenda. If the plan was to get women on board with ObamaCare, it's time to put another check in the presidential failure column. According to CNN polling, support for the law just hit an all-time low.

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Only 35% of those questioned in the poll say they support the health care law, a 5-point drop in less than a month. Sixty-two percent say they oppose the law, up four points from November. Nearly all of the newfound opposition is coming from women. "Opposition to Obamacare rose six points among women, from 54% in November to 60% now, while opinion of the new law remained virtually unchanged among men," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "That's bad news for an administration that is reaching out to moms across the country in an effort to make Obamacare a success."

So, in his effort to drag women into his ACA web, the President has actually managed to turn more of them against the plan. Disapproval remains relatively uniform regardless of age or income and this is the first time CNN polls have ever seen overall opposition top 60%. CNN tries to help the President out by revealing that 15% of the people who dislike the law say that it's not liberal enough, but even that number is declining. Meanwhile, 63% say it's making their coverage more expensive and only 7% say the ACA will live up to its name and make coverage more "affordable." 42% say that they are "personally worse-off" under ObamaCare. Liberals may like to cling desperately to that 15%, but it's positively overwhelmed by the reality of what the law is doing to ordinary American households. Plus, if they were to make the law more liberal to appease the 15%, they'd likely lose that support elsewhere. We're sure the President is somewhere in Hawaii, sitting on a beach, sipping a Mai Tai and telling his buddies that "the polls don't matter." Ignore them. Everything will be fine. That's always the battle cry when your numbers are upside down.