"Republicans press Medicare attack in congressional elections"

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Republicans press Medicare attack in congressional elections

By David Morgan at Reuters


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/us-usa-healthcare-medicare-idUSBREA2706420140309

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(Reuters) - Republicans, looking for ways to turn November's congressional elections into a referendum on President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, are trying to portray Obamacare as a danger to Medicare.

The aim is to court one of the biggest and most reliable voting blocs in midterm elections, senior citizens and people near retirement, by depicting Republicans as defenders of the federal healthcare program for 42 million seniors.

It's an attempt to turn the tables on Democrats, who in the 2012 presidential election attacked Republican Mitt Romney over Republican proposals to overhaul Medicare.

"You'd have to be a blind man in a dark room not to see the political implications of Obamacare in general and now specifically with respect to Medicare," said Brock McCleary, former polling director for the Republican National Committee.




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[applegrove]

1. Democrats need to highlight Paul Ryan's plans for medicare.

[spanone]

2. lying is a basic part of their strategy.

[RKP5637]

3. Republicans are such an enormous energy sink hole. They're like a black hole of

negative energy. Such wasted people.

[Loudly]

4. This is another reason for Democrats to campaign on Medicare for All.

It really is the only antidote for the electoral backlash to Obamacare which they otherwise are going to suffer.