Obama wins!!! Obama Care is legal!!!

Federal taxes are only evil when they are used to take from someone who has earned their money and give to those that haven't earned it.

I'm sure I alienate quite a few of my fellow A2K members since this is a forum overrun by Progressives, but you have no idea how I affect people outside of this realm, and, unlike you, I make no lofty claims to any such ability.

New polls show a surge of enthusiasm among Democratic voters in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act and greater voter confidence in President Obama’s healthcare policies than rival Mitt Romney.

Fifty-nine percent of Democratic registered voters said they were very enthusiastic about voting this year, up from only 46 in March, in a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday and conducted after the landmark court ruling.

That massive spike in enthusiasm however was not matched on the GOP side. Republican enthusiasm has remained steady at 51.

And despite most polls showing Obama’s healthcare law to be unpopular, voters say Obama would do a better job on healthcare than GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney by 51 to 44 percent.

Those findings matched the results in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll also released Monday. In that poll voters also view Romney less favorably on healthcare.

Just 30 percent in that poll say they hold a favorable view of Romney’s healthcare policies, with 47 percent negative. Twenty-three percent say they are undecided.

Obama’s ratings on healthcare are also underwater, with 45 percent favorable and 48 unfavorable, but by a smaller margin than Romney.

The poll also finds the public evenly split on the healthcare law following the court’s ruling, a gain for backers of the provisions.

Forty-three percent see the law favorably overall with 42 percent holding an unfavorable view. Before the ruling, an ABC/Post poll taken last week showed a 36 percent positive view of the law with a 52 percent negative.

Further adding to Romney’s concerns, independent voters prefer Obama’s healthcare reforms by 12 points over Romney. Thirty-eight percent of independent voters view Obama’s healthcare policies positively, with 26 percent showing support for Romney’s.

Even with his own base, Romney has a greater challenge convincing them to embrace his policies. 62 percent of Republicans give Romney positive marks on healthcare, while Obama gets a positive score from 80 percent of Democrats.

In the wake of the court’s ruling, Romney’s campaign has muddled their message, splitting with Republicans who argue that the individual mandate provision is a tax, not a penalty.

Romney’s attempts to attack the president’s healthcare plan is complicated by his own healthcare reforms passed as Massachusetts governor, which Democrats say was the blueprint for their own federal reform effort. Romney though says he never intended for the Massachusetts reforms to be implemented nationally. The GOP candidate has pledged to undo the entire Affordable Care Act if elected.

The polls also show Romney holding close with Obama in the run up to the November vote.

The CNN/ORC poll also found that Romney has a sizeable lead in 15 key battleground states, but Obama holds a slim edge nationally.

Romney leads Obama 51 percent to 43 among likely voters surveyed in 15 states that will be critical in determining the outcome of the 2012 election.

Obama won 12 of these battleground states in 2008 - Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin – and will need to keep about half of those in 2012 if he’s to secure reelection. The poll also considered Missouri, Indiana and Arizona to be battleground states.

That’s good news for Romney, showing he has a base of support in those states, but CNN’s swing state data comes with some caveats. It’s a blanket poll of 534 registered voters in those 15 states, so it’s no indication of which candidate leads in an individual state, or by how much.

Obama holds a slim lead over Romney nationally, 49 to 46, which is within the poll’s margin of error, and unchanged from the same poll in May.

The CNN poll of 1,390 registered voters across the country, and 534 registered voters in 15 battleground states was conducted between June 28 and July 1 and has a 2.5 percent margin of error.

The ABC/Washington Post poll was conducted from June 28 to July 1has a 4 point margin of error.

Please prove this. I hear it all the time, but it seems to be part of the class warfare scheme used by the left.

So he claims a tax dedication on his taxes and that's welfare?

You guys are so twisted in your thoughts. See what I mean by class warfare? Tax deductions based off of money he makes isn't welfare, that is a tax deduction.

Welfare is taking from those who make money and giving to those who do not make money.

Yes, we do. States, at least, still have property taxes, and if that isn't a tax on wealth, what would be?