Democracy Corps survey shows growing support for Obamacare

[G_j]

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/16/1247989/-Democracy-Corps-survey-shows-growing-support-for-nbsp-Obamacare?detail=facebook

by Joan McCarter Oct 16, 2013 1:52pm PDT

Last weeks' NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed a marked increase in support for the Affordable Care Act, particularly in those who strongly supported the law. A new survey from Democracy Corps and the Women’s Voices Women’s Vote Action Fund indicate that those results might not be an outlier. At all.

-Just 38 percent now clearly oppose the Affordable Care Act. While likely voters divide evenly on the plan, 8 percent oppose the law because it does not go far enough. As a result, just 38 percent oppose the law because it is big government.

-By significant margins, voters want lawmakers to implement and fix the law, rather than repeal it. By a 20-point margin, 58 percent to 38 percent, voters say lawmakers should implement and fix the law rather than repeal it. Additionally, intensity favors implementation—38 percent strongly favor implementing the law while 28 percent strongly favor repeal.

-Strong opposition to the law has dropped a net 10 points since 2010 —now at 34 percent. This is a totally different context than 2010, when Democrats paid the price for the ACA and Republicans took control of the House [...]

-By a 17-point margin (49 to 32), voters say they trust Democrats more than Republicans on implementing the Affordable Care Act. The more Republicans make the period ahead about implementation, the more voters trust Democrats to do a better job in government.

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[Jeff In Milwaukee]

1. The narrative is changing...

Somebody pointed this out in another thread earlier today. What we're starting to see is a lot of marketing communication from insurance companies to the effect of "Hey, sign up with us! We're great!" It's hard to deliver that message (making your company sound good) without having the collateral message that Obamacare must also be good -- otherwise you wouldn't be trying to sell it to me.

For the past 2-3 years, we've had nothing but Koch-funded lies and distortions about Obamacare. Now that it's a fait accompli, I suspect that those crazy bastards will stop wasting their money trying to stop it, leaving the "marketplace of ideas" cleared for more positive messages.

Heh, heh. The Tea Party was right! Once people get used to it, you'll NEVER be able to take it away.

[G_j]

2. no turning back now

as you say, they can no longer write the narrative.

[ProSense]

3. Kentucky is upsetting the teabaggers

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Here's another comment from the same poster that also helps further explain their thinking:

wexwuther

Kentucky can go to hell in a handbasket. The people there are flocking to the ACA. We should bring to this fight the discipline of the union workers who hold firm on their strikes and suffer on principle. There can be no worse patriotic move right now than to sign up for Obamacare just to save a few hundred bucks a month. It will end up costing America much more than that.

Takes a minute to truly unpack that one. Everyone who might save money using Obamacare is unpatriotic, destroying America and deserves to rot in Hell for all eternity. Almost wish this was some kind of a liberal plant but the problem is I've met people who think just like this. From the polling it appears the country is finally waking up to the ugly truth of it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/16/1247830/-Best-Redstate-comment-for-today

Kentucky GOP Senators Were Wrong That State Didn’t Want Obamacare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023864125

Kentucky's success makes a mockery of GOP Obamacare foes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023779107

[G_j]

4. I saw that

awesome.. Think on that, Rand!

[G_j]

5. K