July 8, 2011 10:44AM 

# Conservatives, Tea Partisans Still Really, Really Angry about ObamaCare 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Or at least, that’s what *The Daily Caller* [says](http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/07/obamacare-still-angers-conservative-voters-focus-groups-say/) a Republican pollster says:

> A year may have passed since Obamacare passed, but conservatives are still angry as hell about it.
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> Expect the legislation to play a large role in the 2012 elections, according to John McLaughlin, who recently conducted a series of focus groups for the research group Resurgent Republic. The group is run by some of the country’s best-known Republicans.
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> “My guess it it’s going to be a big election issue next year,” McLaughlin said in an interview…
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> When it comes to President Obama’s health care law among these voters, the perception of these voters has hardly changed: the intensity remains strong and they still want it repealed, McLaughlin said.

[ObamaCare](www.cato.org/bad-medicine)’s [overall numbers](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/healthplan_n_725503.html) don’t look any better, either.

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