The implementation of Obamacare has been “a joke.”
That is what six in 10 voters said in a Fox News poll released Thursday, which also showed that more voters than not think that the Obamacare rollout has been so rocky that someone should be fired and that Congress should “get rid of the law.”
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The poll showed that 14 percent of those surveyed have tried to access HealthCare.gov, while 85 percent have not. Of those, 44 percent said the website worked well, and 55 percent said it did not work well.
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The poll showed that 9 percent of the respondents approve of the way that Congress is doing its job, while 33 percent of respondents approve of the job that Democrats in Congress are doing versus 20 percent for congressional Republicans. Just over four in 10 voters said they approve of the way President Obama has done his job.
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More than six in 10 voters said if they could, they would fire everyone in Congress, and respondents were split over whether random people walking down the street would do a better job handling the country’s problems than the current crop of lawmakers.
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In addition, Mr. Obama and the Democratic party have higher favorable ratings than the tea party movement, the Republican party and Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican that led the push to defund Obama — an effort that members of both parties blame for the government shutdown.
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Asked if they would vote for the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate in their district if the election were held today, 45 percent said they would support a Democrat, while 37 percent said they would support a Republican.
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The poll was conducted by telephone Oct. 20-22 among a random national sample of 1,020 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
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