Here is a great link to track ACA (Obamacare) enrollment figures. Thinks are progressing great as compared to Romneycare in Massachusetts. Remember, in Massachusetts, many did not enroll until the imposition of the penalty.
Meanwhile, a new poll from the ABC News and the Washington Post shows that approval of Obamacare has rebounded from the worse of the flawed rollout and broken website media hysteria in late October and November. Now that the website is working, the approval numbers are back to where they were before:
46 percent of Americans support it, with 49 percent opposed. Opposition is down from a record 57 percent last month amid the new system’s troubled rollout.
Greg Sargent dives deeper into these new numbers:
I’ve got some new numbers from the Post polling team that shed a bit of light on why the law’s approval has enjoyed something of a rebound. The short version: It originally cratered because of a big drop among young people (aged 18-29), moderates, and independents, and also because groups who were already most hostile to the law turned on it even more fiercely.
The rebound in support is driven mostly by these comebacks, which are the largest changes our poll recorded:
• Among people under 30, support for the law has bounced back by 20 points, dropping sharply to 36 percent in November and returning to 56 percent now. (There has been a ton of chatter about young voters supposedly abandoning the law; we’ll see if this new poll causes anyone to revisit that assessment.)
• Among independents, support has come back by nine points, dropping to 36 percent in November and returning to 45 percent now.
• Among moderates, support has come back by 10 points, dropping to 44 percent in November and returning to 54 percent now.