Todd: Admin Says Obamacare Poll Numbers Won’t Change Until Obama Leaves Office

A Morning Joe panel Wednesday morning looked at conflicting poll numbers over the Affordable Care Act, including what appears to be an outlier poll from ABC News/Washington Post showing a bare majority supporting the bill. NBC News White House correspondent Chuck Todd said the Obama administration is privately discounting the poll, and doesn’t expect public opinion on the law to change until President Barack Obama leaves office.

“What’s interesting is talking to White House aides yesterday and in many ways they were in a celebratory mode, they feel a little bit vindicated,” Todd said. “However, they feel a little sober-minded about that one poll. They weren’t flaunting it. They were careful to say: you know what, in all honesty, the numbers haven’t moved. You talk to the senior political aides, they say, we see the same things you do, the numbers haven’t moved, and we don’t think the numbers will move.”

“In fact, I had one senior political aide who’s known the president for nearly decade say to me, ‘We think the numbers on health care won’t move until the president leaves office,'” Todd continued.

Yesterday’s good number on the ACA was followed by a Quinnipiac poll today suggesting the support for Obamacare was underwater, approximately where it’s been since the law was passed in early 2010.

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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