“Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Karl Rove, theyre all warning you of the horrendous impact if you support this legislation,” President Barack Obama said in March about his health reform, but “I am actually confident . . . that it will end up being the smart thing to do politically . . .”
Unfortunately for the president, it turns out ObamaCare is not the wind filling the sails of Democratic candidates and propelling them to victory. Rather it has become a reef on which many of their electoral hopes will founder.
Pollster.com reports health-care reform is less popular today than it was when it was passed in March. And it wasnt particularly popular back then.
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Americans stubbornly resist this landmark legislation in part because virtually every major claim about its benefits is turning out to be false—and people recoil when misled.
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via Karl Rove: Democrats and the Health-Reform Albatross – WSJ.com.