Some data from Gallup:

Electorally vulnerable Democrats may have something to gain from the perception of triangulating away from their party leadership, but this sort of result tends not to support the idea that breaking with congressional Democrats to join congressional Republicans in a filibuster of Obama’s signature health initiatives would be a political winner.

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