The Worm Has Turned: Obamacare Support At Record Highs - time to turn the screw on Republicans

[Fred Sanders]

"The worm has turned. Republicans have figured out that running around simply screaming that America needs to "Repeal Obamacare!" isn't going to work this fall. As Bobby Jindal's recent foray into the wonderful world of health care reform proposals indicates, they know for sure it won't work in 2016.
But if you don't want to believe Jindal, and want actual data, we've got that on our side too. Earlier this week, support for Obamacare reached the highest level achieved in any of the 20 polls done by ABC/Washington Post. With 49 supporting and 48 percent opposed, this is a serious turnaround from ABC/WaPo's numbers from last November (after the botched rollout of healthcare.gov) that showed 40 percent supporting and 57 percent."

Amid some sage advice:


"We have to go on offense and hang "Repeal Obamacare" around their necks. We must make them run on taking away health insurance from what will be, a year from now, tens of millions of Americans. If they're smart, they'll be running away from repeal faster than you can say "former Senator Mitch McConnell."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/06/1289375/-Democrats-must-run-against-Obamacare-repeal-Not-just-for-Obamacare-Against-repeal

ABC poll and commentary:

"While still shy of a majority, 49 percent support is numerically the highest on record - albeit by a single point - in more than 20 ABC/Post polls since August 2009. The previous high was 48 percent in November 2009. The low was 39 percent in April 2012; the average, 45 percent.

Taking it another way, while not statistically significant, this survey's +1 positive score for the law is a first. Other than an even 47-47 percent in July 2012, it's been numerically negative in every other measurement, ranging from -1 to last November's -17, averaging -5 points."

http://abcnews.go.com/politics/t/blogEntry?id=23130838

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Republicans will run on the Ryan/Koch budget and repeal Obamacare for tens of millions.
If we run on a working fix of the broken health care system, minimum wage increases and equality....we win, by a landslide.

What really gets me is how the mass media was in such a frenzy over a glitchy website, but now that the projected numbers, the same numbers from the same sources, have been exceeded, they stand mute. And not just mute, they in the corporate media, perhaps shocked and awed by their own incompetence, will now never mention the numbers without carrying water for the Republican propagandists that still attack the numbers, without regard to the projected enrolment numbers always being subject to cancellations, unpaid, etc. latter factored in.....the unawareness of their own ignorance is bottomless...the mass media is the enemy my friends as much as the Republicans.
Fight fear with facts, slam them over their hard heads repeatedly with nothing more than the facts.

[mikeysnot]

1. This has always been their fear.

Just like the fools that cry about SS, they are too young or ignorant to know why it was created in the first place.

[mucifer]

2. Hoping people recognize that keeping their kids on their policies till 26 yo is part of

Obamacare and no preexisting illness issues is Obamacare. There is going to be millions and millions of dollars of ads lying to people so who knows what people are gonna believe.

[gulliver]

3. Yup. We are going to be on offense on Obamacare.

The Republicans shut down the government trying to stop a program that is going to be very, very popular in a few months.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Of those opposed

Many feel it doesn't go far enough.

[Fred Sanders]

5. About 7%, but that is a hidden bias the pollsters all decided to do.

[jberryhill]

6. National polls are meaningless to House/Senate races

[freshwest]

7. Oh, noes! Please don't say that!

[jberryhill]

8. Well it's a fact

Anyone who thinks the nutbars who keep sending people like Eric Cantor to Congress have had some kind of change of heart is deluded.

The way that various states have gerrymandered their districts in order to dilute Democratic representation, it really doesn't matter if every voter in every already-blue district is absolutely determined to vote on whether a candidate does or does not support Obamacare. That would give a much bigger national margin than 49-48, but it wouldn't mean diddly squat in red districts.

[freshwest]

9. What about Virginia? They turned their states around. Please don't discourage voting. n/t

[jberryhill]

10. Lol

Recognizing the reality that a national poll has absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of Congressional elections does not "discourage voting".

Whether a fact is relevant to anything is a matter of rational thinking. No, I will not be irrational for the sake of "encouraging voting".

Yeah, someone in Cantor's district come November is going to say, "Well, I just might as well not vote because of what someone said in a comment on a thread in DU last March".

Get real.

[freshwest]

11. Well, I was teasing to begin with, and this is DU reality, not your or mine. Bye. n/t