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SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:36 AM Jul 2012

I keep hearing the ACA discussed on the "news" daily

Some are starting to say people are either starting to like it or at least want to give it a try but I haven't see the actual polls. Has anyone seen any of the new polls, if there are any?

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I keep hearing the ACA discussed on the "news" daily (Original Post) SoutherDem Jul 2012 OP
The Republicans will, of course, keep trying to repeal it Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #1
Some recent polling... PoliticAverse Jul 2012 #2

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,436 posts)
1. The Republicans will, of course, keep trying to repeal it
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:17 AM
Jul 2012

I'm not really hearing a lot "buzz" about it where I am from people other than the far right whom have been opposed to it from the start. I think that the SCOTUS ruling- to the extent that most people know that it happened- took a lot of wind out of the right's "sails". The SCOTUS ruling has given the law a sense of legitimacy that it didn't have before, or at least there's no longer a constitutional question about it anymore. What we're seeing right now from the Republicans and their Tea Party is essentially a big tantrum. I don't think that the average Joe or Jane- to the extent that they know about the law- is all that worked up about it either way. I think that, if Dems follow President Obama's lead and start letting people know THE TRUTH about what the law does and people start realizing what is REALLY in the law and, more importantly, start benefiting personally from it, the less demand there will be for repeal and, let's face it, the law has been in effect for over two years now and the sky hasn't fallen and we're not living under a tyrannical dictatorship (note to the baggers: just because you say something, doesn't make it so!).

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