Few believe healthcare legislation will pass

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As President Obama makes his final push for an ‘up or down vote’’ on healthcare legislation, and prepares to head out next week to Philadelphia and St. Louis to rally public support, only about a third of Americans surveyed said they believed the legislation would pass this year.

That 34% level recorded in the Pew Research Center’s weekly news index is somewhat higher than it was last week, 27%.

But it’s far from the 57% recorded in mid-January, after the Senate and House had passed their own versions of a bill but before Republican Scott Brown was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts and the Democrats were deprived of the supermajority that had enabled them to push the bill through the Senate.

Read more about Pew’s findings in The Swamp.

-- Mark Silva