A New York Times Upshot/Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows four Senate races in the South doing surprisingly well. Even better, Bill “Always Wrong” Kristol has declared the poll to be bogus. Heh.
A poll released Wednesday offers yet another data point showing the politics of Obamacare aren’t as set in stone as the conventional wisdom would have you believe. Embracing Obamacare isn’t necessarily a political loser, and obstructing it isn’t necessarily a winner.
The New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation poll surveyed four Southern states that will help determine control of the Senate this fall. It earned headlines for finding the Democrats in better shape in the Senate races than most would have expected.
But it also assessed the popularity of four governors who have taken vastly different approaches to Obamacare — and the findings are a direct contradiction of the narrative that the law is a loser, plain and simple, especially in states like these.
The poll showed Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe (D) and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D), who expanded Medicaid under the law, are hugely popular. Their approval ratings are more than 20 points higher than their disapproval ratings; Beebe holds 68 percent approval, and Beshear is at 56 percent.
But Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) are at best treading water with their constituents after they declined to expand the program to cover low-income residents. McCrory is middling, with 43 percent approval and 44 percent disapproval, while Jindal is 14 percent underwater at 40 percent approval and 54 percent disapproval.
True to form, righties are claiming the poll is skewed. The Times says it isn’t.
This has to have the GOP worried, though, because they’ve believed all they had to do to secure a midterm sweep was to bash Obamacare, and the new poll shows that isn’t working all that well. Of course, there are other factors impacting these numbers beside health care law. But there will always be other factors, and the poll suggests that running against the ACA is not the magic bullet Republicans thought it was.
Maybe, after 5 years of the GOP screaming dire warnings at the top of their lungs about Obamacare causing economic and health care Armageddon’s – and there’ve been no plagues, no first-born’s disappearing, no invasions of locusts (at least, any unexpected ones), no smoke on the water, and no fire in the sky – people around the country are getting tired of the Reich-Winger’s shrieking, wailing, weeping, gnashing of their teeth, and tearing at their hair and garments, about Obamacare, and want them to move on and help fix the still struggling economy.
And you know what’s “skewed?”
The people who think that EVERY piece of evidence that shows that they’re wrong.
THAT’S “skewed.”
Let’s hope in November, the GOP gets SCREWED!!!
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