Sep 4, 2009 11:39 am US/Eastern
Poll: NJ Voters Lose Support For Obama, Obamacare
TEANECK, N.J. (CBS) ―
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President Barack Obama waves after disembarking the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2009 upon his return from Raleigh, N.C., where he held meetings on health care reform.
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A new poll finds President Barack Obama's support slipping a bit in New Jersey, while his health care reform proposals are faring worse.
A Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll finds 56 percent of the state's voters approve of the job the president is doing, down from 61 percent in June.
Voters are split on health care reform. Forty-one percent want their member of Congress to vote against it, while 37 percent want their representative to vote for it. The difference is within the poll's sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
One-third of voters think the reforms would benefit them, while nearly half believe the policies would hurt them.
The telephone poll of 715 likely voters was conducted between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30.
New York Congressman Charles Rangel attributed opposition to health care reform to "bias" and "prejudice." "Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is President of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'how did this happen?'" he said.
Rangel also likened the fight to provide health care for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights. "Why do black people have to bargain for what is theirs? Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? And that is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not court the votes. Just do the right thing," Rangel said.
Rangel's incendiary remarks come as the congressman filed amended financial reports to the House Ethics Committee admitting that he forgot to report millions of dollars in assets and income.
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