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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 04:05 PM Dec 2013

So there's this Politico story about Cheney badmouthing the ACA.

You hardly need to read the story or watch the vid to get the gist of it But what interests me more than anything else is the Comment section--and, even beyond the comments, the votes on the comments.

Politico is a right-ish site, and many of the commenters are no doubt trolls (although there is also a healthy dose of sanity among the posts) but the thing that drew my attention is the distribution of positive versus negative ratings given each of the comments. By and large, by quite a healthy margin (like 6-1? I didn't calculate it), the voters are trashing the trolls. I don't have any idea of how much weight to put on this sort of evidence, but it does seem to be a beneath-the-surface glance at public sentiment on the ACA, and it looks like the troglodytes are losing.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/dick-cheney-obamacare-doctors-100867.html?hp=f3

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