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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Democrats: If The GOP Wants To Win Elections They’ll Ignore Obamacare

Hop in the van, kids, I have candy.
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When the Democrats start giving you advice about how to win elections then you know you are onto something. From the Washingon Post:
President Obama is in a political free fall. Democrats up for reelection in 2014 are furiously trying to get out from under the Affordable Care Act’s problems. Independent handicappers are predicting doom and gloom at the ballot box for the party next November.
In short, everything is coming up Republicans lately. But the GOP would be making a big mistake if it assumed that the problems with Obamacare were a panacea for all that ails the party. They aren’t.
In the view of the Democrats, if the Republicans really, really want to take advantage of the “stumble” on Obamacare they need to act on a lot of other stuff. We need to go after tax reform, and ENDA, and the Holy Grail: Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
The idea seems to be that now that the GOP is on the right side of an issue that has about 70% support its best course of action to ensure electoral success is to stop talking about that issue and move on to other issues where the GOP Caucus has rather dramatic fault lines or issues that can be demogogued by the Democrats…..To Read More….

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