Who do you think these people will vote for in 2014?

[Playinghardball]

Found on the Obama Diary

[LongTomH]

1. Sadly, the Repubs have been absolutely brilliant about getting people to vote against their.........

......interests. They'll have working poor (who are one step away from needing assistance themselves) calling the people needing Medicaid and unemployment insurance as 'lazy loafers.'

[AlinPA]

6. Republican politicians say "I love Jesus and Praise God!" and their voters get in line for them.

[Dawgs]

2. Hope I'm wrong but probably not much different than they've voted in the past. n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. In many cases, the Republicans, based on past form.

If you want to answer the question "who will people vote for?", the right way to answer it is to ask "who have people voted for in the past in similar circumstances?", not "who do I think it would be sensible for people to vote for?"

[arcane1]

4. I wonder how many of them think their state's exchange was "an alternative to Obamacare"

I keep thinking back to a video of people in some state, where volunteers were getting people signed onto the exchanges, and one man saying "well, it's got to be better than Obamacare" or words to that effect.

Edit: maybe it wasn't a video, but here is a reference to it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/kentucky-obamacare_n_3801054.html

[LWolf]

5. Republicans are better at propaganda

than Democrats are. They start with a foundation of illiteracy and semi-literacy, and build on de-valuing intellect and valuing "belief" over fact.

Case in point: the chart you posted. It's doubtful that Democrats will be able to convince large blocks of traditionally Republican voters that the economy, including unemployment insurance, is the fault of Republicans regardless of reality. Huge swaths of Republican voters just don't "do" reality.

Also, having to fall back on the ACA as a Democratic victory is weak propaganda at best. It's not like everyone can afford actual health CARE after paying for that insurance, and many of those insurance policies still cost more than a modest mortgage and still cost more after the premiums to actually use.