"If there is a Republican party after this debacle, it will regret affixing Obama's name to such a trans-formative and popular program."
I guess it depends on the what the meaning of "popular" is:
Poll: Obamacare remains highly unpopular as implementation looms
By Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor, NBC News
A large number of Americans continue to adamantly oppose the nation’s new health-care law and believe it will produce damaging results, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Forty-four percent of respondents call the health-care law a bad idea, while 31 percent believe it's a good idea -- virtually unchanged from July's NBC/WSJ survey.
By a 45 percent to 23 percent margin, Americans say it will have a negative impact on the country's health-care system rather than a positive one.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/15/20506193-poll-obamacare-remains-highly-unpopular-as-implementation-looms?lite Obamacare Arrives 3 Years Later, Little Understood and Not Well-Liked
On the law itself, moreover, 52 percent are opposed, vs. 42 percent in support; in 16 ABC-Post polls since August 2009, it has never received majority support.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/three-years-later-obamacare-arrives-little-understood-and-not-well-liked/ More than half of Americans oppose most or all of the proposals in Obamacare, a sharp increase in opposition to the healthcare law from earlier this year, according to a new poll Wednesday.
Poll: Obamacare opposition climbs
Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said they opposed most or all of the proposals in the law, while just 39 percent favored most or all of the law, according to a CNN/ORC International poll.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/poll-obamacare-opposition-climbs-96659.html
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