Views on Obamacare closely track party preference in Washington State

The Seattle Times' Lisa Stiffler, working in partnership with Kaiser Health News, reports: "If you want to know whether people in Washington state like or loathe Obamacare, you could just ask them which political party they prefer. That's because 80 percent of Democrats surveyed approve of health-care reform while 80 percent of Republicans don't, according to an Elway Poll of Washington voters conducted on behalf of The Seattle Times. Independent voters are the wild card, with 41 percent in favor and 46 percent against the overhaul, formally known as the Affordable Care Act" (Stiffler, 9/23). Read the story.