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Posted: 2016-12-01T08:00:24Z | Updated: 2016-12-01T08:00:24Z

The first major post-election survey on Obamacare suggests that repeal is a lot less popular than President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans may imagine.

The poll also finds that even many Americans who support repeal think Republicans should decide how theyd replace Obamacare before passing a law that would end the program.

The survey comes from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation , which has been tracking public attitudes toward the the Affordable Care Act since 2010, when President Barack Obama signed it into law.

Like earlier surveys, this one finds the public sharply divided on the law, with sentiments tracking partisan alignments closely. Democrats tend to support it, Republicans do not.

But in the Kaiser poll, support for full repeal is a distinctly minority position. Only 26 percent of Americans favor it, according to the survey, with another 17 percent preferring that Trump and Republicans merely scale back what the law does.