Posted on 10/24/2014 1:33:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections. But no one has told Republican candidates, who are still pounding away at the Affordable Care Act on the stump. And no one has told voters, especially those in states with closely contested Senate races, who regularly place it among the top issues of the campaign.
In Arkansas, Republican challenger Tom Cotton is pulling ahead of incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor partly on the strength of a relentless focus on Obamacare. Cotton's newest ad attacks Pryor over the law, as did two of Cotton's four previous ads.
"In our polling, [Obamacare] continues to be just as hot as it's been all year long," says a source in the Cotton campaign. "If you look at a word cloud of voters' biggest hesitation in voting for Mark Pryor, the two biggest words are 'Obama' and 'Obamacare.' Everything after that is almost an afterthought."
Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, is pushing just as hard. "Sen. Landrieu, I voted for you before, but when you voted for Obamacare, I knew I'd made a mistake," says a woman in a Cassidy ad featuring Landrieu voters who say her support of the health care law turned them away from Democrats.
Joni Ernst, leading the Senate race in Iowa, is pushing hard on Obamacare, too....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It won’t be a factor if they steal another election like they’re working on. A vote for a republican in Illinois and the computer registers your vote as one for a dhimmicrat. Plus those states and areas where you can walk into the booth with your back still wet from swimming the rio grande and you are allowed to vote.
Obamacare has not been implemented as scheduled in the legislation so as to save the DemocRATS from the disastrous fall-out it will produce for the economy and for individual privacy and liberty.
Well it is also the reason Romney lost,he took the issue of Obamacare off the table and millions of voters stayed home.
How could he use it? He invented the dam thing!
THAT WAS MY POINT!
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