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vi5

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5. I think its having the opposite effect on me.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 03:51 PM
Sep 2012

When it looked like Obama might have less of a chance, I wasn't so enthusiastic about getting out to vote. I was going to, no doubt about it. But it was halfhearted.

Now that he's up and it's likely he's going to win I'm actually more excited than I would otherwise have been.

I was a doubter and a skeptic with regard to the Obamacare as half measure and incremental change. I whined about wanting it to be better faster, and I based this on the fact that I thought the Supremes would overturn it and/or Obama would lose and it would be struck down one way or another.

But now that the Supremes are out of the way, and now that it looks like Obama will win and if he does the ACA will become solidified law (as much as anything can in this country) and there's actually a chance of it getting into place and/or expanding I'm more excited than I was previously to get the hell out there and to encourage others to do the same.

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