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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: One in Five Americans Believes Obamacare Has Already Been Repealed
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-30/a-new-obstacle-to-gop-efforts-to-repeal-obamacareA New Obstacle to GOP Efforts to Repeal Obamacare
By Joshua Green
April 30, 2013 0:38 PM EDT
Over the last two years, Republicans in Congress have voted dozens of times to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. A furious debate over whether to keep up the probably fruitless push for outright repeal or instead attack the law at the margins has sundered the GOP and set back the efforts by such Republican leaders as Eric Cantor to put a friendlier face on an unpopular party.
A new poll out this morning from the Kaiser Family Foundation reveals an obstacle to repeal that Republicans may not have been counting on: One in five Americans believes that Obamacare has already been repealed. These misinformed millions divide into two camps: the 12 percent who wrongly believe that Congress has already undone the law and the 7 percent who wrongly believe that the Supreme Court struck it down (they must be CNN and Fox News watchers).
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Poll: One in Five Americans Believes Obamacare Has Already Been Repealed (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Apr 2013
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tridim
(45,358 posts)1. This is what happens when alternate reality is presented as actual reality.
Mission accomplished for Faux Newz.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)2. New poll - 99.9% of American's don't understand Obamacare but still argue
for it's positive and negative aspects like they are the end of the world.
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. 4 in 5 Americans believe Congress works for the people.
The best trick the Devil ever played, was convincing the world he don't exist.