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How should Democrats deal with Obamacare in 2014?
CBS News ^ | 4/05/14 | Jacqueline Alemany

Posted on 04/05/2014 3:34:27 PM PDT by Libloather

For Senate Democrats running this year in Republican-leaning states, their struggle with how to deal with Obamacare's unpopularity left them biting their nails a bit harder after President Obama announced Tuesday that the health care law hit its 7 million enrollment goal.

While the White House continues touting the benefits of the law, polls consistently show more Americans disapprove of Obamacare -- a disconnect that's not helping as Democrats try to fire up voters in their effort to fend off a potential Republican takeover of the Senate.

But at a time when the economy is overwhelmingly viewed as the most important issue that the country faces, Obamacare could be the deciding issue of the midterms if Democrats allow it to be, pollsters and strategists in both parties say.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014; democratcare; democrats; obamacare; repeal
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To: Libloather
The Democrats could demonstrate their seriousness by committing Seppuku (ritual suicide). After all it's about “affordable” health care, isn't it?

Ah, no it isn't. it's about power and control over your life.

21 posted on 04/05/2014 5:05:05 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Libloather
Simple...

Embrace the SUCK!

Let them run on it. It's their baby.

Unfortunately, RINOs are afraid of it and won't campaign against it.

22 posted on 04/05/2014 5:09:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Libloather
Relevant funnies sent to me in an e-mail:

If this doesn't cheer you up, nothing will...

"The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree...and think 25 to life would be appropriate." (Jay Leno)

" America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask." (Jay Leno)

"Q: Have you heard about McDonald's' new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it." (Conan O'Brien)

"Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser." (Jay Leno)

"Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners." (David Letterman)

"Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America !" (Jimmy Fallon)

"Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers." (Jimmy Kimmel)

"Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road." (David Letterman)

Solution to the problem in Egypt:
They want a new Muslim leader, Give them ours.

23 posted on 04/05/2014 5:10:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody's doing it.- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Libloather

24 posted on 04/05/2014 5:13:49 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody's doing it.- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Gen.Blather

Dead wrong.

Look at the popularity of the plan even among their base. The party is a coalition, and Obamacare is literally killing people. As in already happening. As in no longer projected to happen which was the case when the Findlaw.com legal blog (no way to call that site a bastion of conservatism) deconstructed the bill three years ago.

The longer this goes on before the plug is pulled the more permanent the damage will be.

Mind you, I think they will soldier on with it. The globalists now in charge of the party may push us into civil war in a last ditch attempt to form a socialist state, but the increasing armament of the populace together with the impending collapse of the European Union makes successfully doing that problematic.


25 posted on 04/05/2014 5:18:44 PM PDT by MrEdd (vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Libloather

all democraps should be “relieved of job-lock”


26 posted on 04/05/2014 5:20:34 PM PDT by isom35
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To: Libloather

They will do what they always do: lie.


27 posted on 04/05/2014 5:23:24 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Libloather

Ignore obamacare and remind the media to shut up. Then push for citizenship for illegals and lots of free stuff for every living one of them in the country.


28 posted on 04/05/2014 5:30:30 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: Libloather

Gosh I sure hope they don’t run on that platform!

That would be just awful. They would sure win if they ran on that.

They can do anything to us just don’t run on Obamacare!


29 posted on 04/05/2014 5:35:13 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: Mr. K

SNICKER


30 posted on 04/05/2014 5:36:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Libloather

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31 posted on 04/05/2014 5:46:05 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Libloather

Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) tweeted at 6:10pm - 25 Mar 14:

PS: RE Ds Turnout fear, todays @CBSNewsPoll corroborates GWU poll - 70% of Rs are already excited about voting in Nov cbsnews.com/news/pollsters… (https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/448597811349954561)


32 posted on 04/05/2014 5:48:58 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Libloather
Important to keep the numbers in mind.

Since enrollment started six months ago, close to 15 million low income folks have signed up for Medicaid (free) or heavily subsidized policies.

They are basically happy, and they outnumber the angry folks who lost their old policies by at least 2 to 1.

All the Democrats have to do is repeat the “Mend it, don't end it” theme again and again, and urge the MSM to stay relatively quiet about the worst problems and the worst predictions.

We already know that the GOP leadership has no plan to repeal ObamaCare, and the GOP has no compelling alternative health plan to replace ObamaCare.

I think the Democrats are home free on this issue for 2014, and I predicted exactly that several months ago.

If the Democrats can find a way to turn out their non-white voting base for an off year election, they will easily hold the Senate, and they will take back a couple seats in the House.

33 posted on 04/05/2014 5:53:53 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Libloather

Resign in disgrace.


34 posted on 04/05/2014 6:19:49 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: zeestephen

I fear you are right ... we don`t know how to get into the sewers with the Demonrats and fight ... by the time the insurance companies crunch the numbers and the next set of wake up calls go out to the sheeple it will be too late to save the republic ... the keystone of the socialist state will be in place ... Lenin must be smiling in his grave!


35 posted on 04/05/2014 6:23:21 PM PDT by galtman (America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.)
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To: Libloather

Nice of CBS to worry about Dems losing an election and to give them advice on it.

What else is the media for?


36 posted on 04/05/2014 6:50:08 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: Tupelo

“...if they can properly phrase their message they win in a landslide.”

It’s a long time until the midterms and a long time for Progressives to spin their way out of low poll numbers.

With their allies in education, media, government and elsewhere, they just might do it.

IMHO


37 posted on 04/05/2014 7:06:02 PM PDT by ripley
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To: Libloather

How should Democrats deal with Obamacare in 2014?

They should end it all. End it all right now.


38 posted on 04/05/2014 7:09:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Buck-I-Guy

So far even the MSM has not been able to make a silk purse out of this sow’s ear.

The only people digging it are the die-hard progressives who can not afford to give an inch because once this one is dead it won’t be coming back for a loooong time.


39 posted on 04/05/2014 7:32:58 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: X-spurt

The Dims will not let go of 0 Care. If the pubbies repeal it, any of their stinking marxist programs like The Great Society and Social Security could be repealed. The myth the dims promulgate is that once their program is enacted, the program can never be eliminated. This idea needs to be broken and 0 Care is the perfect candidate.


40 posted on 04/05/2014 9:20:36 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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