Top pollster advises Dems to go on offense on Obamacare

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

The GOP narrative for 2014 rests on the idea that Dem lawmakers and candidates are scurrying away from Obama and his signature domestic achievement. The goal: To create an atmosphere of panic and chaos around Obamacare, to discourage enrollment in hopes of making the law fail and to bait Dems into abandoning it, boosting its unpopularity and making it more of an albatross.

But now top Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg – having just done extensive polling in 86 competitive House districts — is advising Dems they should go on offense over the Affordable Care Act. The key finding: Even though voters in the battlegrounds have extreme doubts about the law, they still prefer implementing it to the GOP stance of repeal. And after a month of crushingly awful press for Obamacare, opinions on this matter in the battlegrounds have barely budged since October.

Dem pollster Stan Greenberg will roll out the new polling on a conference call with reporters later this morning. The poll — sponsored by Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund and Democracy Corps – was conducted in 50 GOP-held districts and 36 Dem-held districts from December 3-8, right after the administration announced its fix to the website. The key findings:

* Offered a straight choice between “implementing and fixing” the health law and “repealing and replacing” it, voters in these 86 districts prefer “implementing and fixing” by five points, 49-44. That’s only a slight difference from October, when implement and fix led by seven, 51-44.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/12/morning-plum-top-pollster-advises-dems-to-go-on-offense-on-obamacare/

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I think that, six months, from now, the ACA dynamics are going to be very different. Caving in the short-term will mean losing a big advantage down the road.

[Eleanors38]

1. "Offense." What's that mean? Is it, like, "win-win?" nt

[SoapBox]

2. In other words,

Get some "brass" Dems. Maybe a spine too for a change...stand straight up and stop caving.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Democrats have to stop repeating RW talking points

and tell constituents that the GOP fights against the promotion of the health and welfare of the citizenry.

[L0oniX]

4. "grow and use spine"

[blm]

5. "Mend it, don't end it."

.

[Gothmog]

6. I hope that the Democrats will use the Affordable Care Act as an issue in 2014

I personally believe that this will be a good issue for Democrats

[Arugula Latte]

7. It should have been happening for a loooooong time now.

[SansACause]

8. It's going to be used at the state level

In many states where the Governor blocked Medicaid expansion, said Governors are catching hell right now. That's just going to get worse as more people in the other states get insurance and most of the South remains a deathtrap for the poor.