Poll: 49 percent want their states to sue over health-care law

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum apparently is on to something.

Leading a dozen other AGs in filing suit against the federal government over the newly enacted health-care bill, McCollum has tapped into a state's rights surge.

According to a Rasmussen Poll this week, 49 percent of U.S. voters favor their state suing the federal government to fight the requirement in the new national health care plan that every American must obtain health insurance.

Thirty-seven percent oppose legal action and 14 percent were undecided.

Seventy-two percent of Republicans and 58 percent of voters not affiliated with either major party favor such lawsuits. Sixty-five percent of Democrats are opposed. (Or, to put it another way, one in three Democrats wants to sue the feds.)

More significantly, Rasmussen found that gap over suing the federal government is even wider between "Mainstream Americans" and what it calls the "Political Class." Sixty-two percent of mainstream voters think the state lawsuits challenging are a good idea while 79 percent of the Political Class disagree.

The other 21 percent apparently are trial lawyers.