Will the Ebola crisis affect the 2014 election?

[CTyankee]

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	It will benefit the Democrats
	0 (0%)
	It will benefit the Republicans
	6 (67%)
	It won't affect the election
	2 (22%)
	Other (please explain)
	1 (11%)
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[Keefer]

1. It already has. n/t

[upaloopa]

2. Yes the dead patients won't be voting

Driving home from work tonight will effect the 2014 elections even more. All those getting seriously injured and killed tonight on our roads and highways won't be voting either. Of course they won't make the national news.

[CTyankee]

7. history tells another story...see my response 6.

[HereSince1628]

3. You forgot the obligatory "BENGHAZI!"

How can we really play?

[CTyankee]

6. Yeah right...but seriously, there are some damn important political issues being raised with

this outbreak. The Black Plague, ironically, brought us the Renaissance. WWI spread the pandemic of the Spanish Influenza.

I think this outbreak could have some extraordinary effects that we don't anticipate...

[upaloopa]

19. What constitutes an outbreak?

How many patients are there in this country. Are they being treated at medical establishments? How many people have they infected? How many infected people are running around untreated?

[CTyankee]

21. I don't think we know.

upaloopa, we have here what is called "a wise fear." We do need to ask questions, as you just did, but we do need to be vigilant. There is a balance and I am not at all in favor of panic. In fact, that is the LAST thing we need. This requires diligence and it requires steady thinking. We can't err on the other side of either.

[upaloopa]

22. It requires truth!

We are getting very little of that do to media hype and people spreading the hysteria.

[CTyankee]

23. What did you expect? What does history tell you about what people do when such crises

come out of the blue and scare the living crap out of them?

All the more reason for diligence with restraint and caution but diligence nonetheless...nobody needs hair on fire at a time like this.

[upaloopa]

25. Excuse me this isn't a crisis!

This is media hype.
If Duncan never made it into the news your life would not be effected any more than it will because he was.

[CTyankee]

32. All the more reason for us to remain calm and carry on with scientific information and

sane thinking.

[davidn3600]

4. Fear is a powerful motivator

And right now the government doesn't look like they have a handle on this virus.

For months the CDC and the government has been telling us that they were prepared to handle this. That they can contain the virus should it pop up in America. But now they admit they aren't prepared. And you have an infected nurse flying on a plane from Texas to Ohio. Polls show 2/3rds of the country want travel from west Africa restricted, and that number will only continue to grow the longer the virus continues to spread.

[upaloopa]

8. Why is the government supposed to get a handle on this?

This is not an epidemic. It isn't even a threat to the public as a whole. It is a media event.

[davidn3600]

11. Not a threat to the public? Are you kidding me?

You just had a nurse flying on an airplane while showing symptoms of Ebola. She was contagious on that flight.

[upaloopa]

18. How is the government supposed to prevent that?

Have the screeners give Ebola checks also ?
This is something we need to educate ourselves on but it isn't as serious as the hype the media is making it out to be.
The government isn't our savior if last resort.

[davidn3600]

20. Have the CDC put people who are high risk on a no-fly list....pretty easy.

[TBF]

30. Wow.

Talk about party politics overriding good sense.

[cali]

5. of course. but how much and who it benefits remains to be seen

[liberal_at_heart]

10. Both parties would love that wouldn't they? They could avoid talking about the economy.

[CTyankee]

13. Well, it DOES give us the chance to talk about public health and government's role

in our lives. So it COULD be a good thing politically...

[uppityperson]

14. +++++++

[liberal_at_heart]

16. where is the money going to come from? I keep hearing about how the hospitals

are suffering from austerity cuts. We keep spending trillions on war and cutting critical money for public services. Will either party back down on going to war with IS so we can start funding our public services again. I kind of doubt it.

[CTyankee]

17. THAT is my point exactly. This kind of crisis reveals the utter insanity of austerity...

this is a teachable moment if ever there was one on the importance of effective government. Only an idiot would not want an investment in public health at a time like this.

[Louisiana1976]

26. This Ebola episode points up the need for single payer. Had we had single payer, uninsured Duncan

would have been isolated the first time he went to the hospital, not sent home with antibiotics.

[TBF]

31. Putting money towards health of people

rather than killing them in wars is EXACTLY what we should be talking about. This is our opportunity.

[BlindTiresias]

28. Unlikely

People will blame socialism, obamacare, blacks, etc etc before a serious discussion about healthcare is opened up again.

[CTyankee]

29. Old elephants have to be by passed then, for younger ones...too bad, old folks you had your

chance. A new generation is taking over, like it or not...

It always happens...

[JI7]

12. only in close races

[Rex]

15. I don't know.

Depends on if we see more people catching it or not imo.

[lpbk2713]

24. The GOP will try to get as much mileage out of it as possible.

The mindless sheepies will listen just like they did with Benghazi
but normal people will know propaganda BS when they hear it.

[Louisiana1976]

27. I hope you're right. I've been afraid the Ebola scare will be the October surprise that throws the

election to the GOP.