53 percent of Harry Reid's constituents oppose ObamaCare

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is up for reelection next year. In 2011 he may not even be a senator, let alone majority leader, if he doesn't listen to his constituents.

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

President Barack Obama has lost ground in the last month in getting Nevadans to embrace his health care reform package and, for the first time, opposition is above 50 percent and support is below 40 percent, a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal reveals.

The telephone poll of 625 registered voters found that 53 percent of Nevadans oppose the president's attempt to provide a remedy for problems in the nation's health care system. Support for the plan is at 39 percent.

That's a 4 percentage point difference in both categories from an October poll that showed support at 43 percent and opposition at 49 percent, almost within that poll's margin of error. Now the gap is at 14 points and opposition in Obama's own Democratic Party is climbing, from 15 percent in October to 23 percent in the most recent poll.

But the numbers are not far off from an August poll that showed support at 40 percent and opposition at 50 percent.

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