Ed Gillespie and Whit Ayres: Those most likely to vote in 2010 soundly reject the Democrats' health care overhaul.

Older voters also rejected the central argument that enacting health care reform legislation would help the economy, with 45% saying it would hurt the economy and only 27% saying it would help. Eighteen percent said it would make no difference.
And when it came to specific proposals to pay for health care reform, opposition to financing provisions under consideration by Congress swamped support:
• 81% opposed cutting Medicare by $400 billion versus 11% who supported it.
• 63% opposed taxing Cadillac health care plans versus 24% who supported it.
• 63% opposed increasing Medicare payroll taxes versus 27% who supported it.
• 60% opposed cutting or eliminating Medicare Advantage versus 14% who supported it.

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Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid seem to have concluded that failing to pass health care reform legislation will hurt them more at the polls than passing it-that they're less "damned if they do" than "damned if they don't." Today's Resurgent Republic poll is strong evidence that they're wrong.