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The first wave of Obamacare cancellations has hit a group of Americans who are well-positioned to swing several critical Senate elections next November. “This voting bloc could have a decisive impact in close races in 2014,” according to a Nov. 11 memo from Resurgent Republic, a survey firm that tracks public opinion on GOP-related priorities. “Four of the nine most competitive states that Senate Democrats are defending have self-insured populations at or above the national average” of 5 percent, said the report. …

I like to think people in the United States still believe in liberty, and I’ve cited some polling data in support of American Exceptionalism. And it seems like that philosophical belief in individualism and limited government sometimes has an impact in the polling booth. According to a recent study, Obamacare was poison for Democrats in 2010.Here’s an excerpt from a report in The Hill.Voting for President Obama’s healthcare reform law cost Democratic incumbents 5.8 percentage points of support at the polls in 2010, according to a new study in the journal American Politics Research. The study helps explain why Democrats lost 66 House seats, significantly...