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Study shows health care bill may have cost Democrats the House
WaPo ^ | 3/9/12 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 03/09/2012 3:37:51 PM PST by ColdOne

A top Democrat acknowledged Thursday that President Obama’s health care bill hurt his party in 2010. And a new study suggests it cost the Democrats something pretty specific: their House majority.

“It was clearly a liability in the last election in terms of the public’s fear,” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday during a briefing with reporters.

The study, by five professors from institutions across the country, looks at the health care bill alongside other contentious votes in the 111th Congress and determines that, more so than the stimulus or the cap-and-trade energy bill, it cost Democrats seats. In fact, they lost almost exactly the number of seats that decided the majority.

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1 posted on 03/09/2012 3:37:53 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

File this one under “duh”.

AND, his constant disregard of the Constitution is gonna cost the rats the Senate this time, and probably the Presidency.

FUBO!


2 posted on 03/09/2012 3:40:40 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: ColdOne

No, duh!


3 posted on 03/09/2012 3:41:48 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ColdOne

Obamacare will also cost my dirtbag Senator, Bill Nelson (Rat-FL) his seat in a few months.


4 posted on 03/09/2012 3:43:21 PM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: clee1
Remember the damage Mark Foley did us in 2006?

What do you think the damage will be simply because the only guy to ever read the ObamaKKKare bill flipped out and began sending pictures of his penis to women all over the country.

That was Tony Wiener ~ who claims total authorship of the bill.

We really do have to do that to the Dems, mostly because it's true!

5 posted on 03/09/2012 3:43:45 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: ColdOne

Well there’s that....

and Obama himself.

Americans wanted him stopped.

You can’t tell me that they’ve had a change of heart in the past 18 months.

Algae Boy gotta go!


6 posted on 03/09/2012 3:44:50 PM PST by digger48
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To: ColdOne

Well there’s that....

and Obama himself.

Americans wanted him stopped.

You can’t tell me that they’ve had a change of heart in the past 18 months.

Algae Boy gotta go!


7 posted on 03/09/2012 3:45:02 PM PST by digger48
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To: clee1

its funny because every ardent obama disciple pointed out that the rat-wingers in congress who voted for obummercare won re-election in 2010....


8 posted on 03/09/2012 3:45:19 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: ColdOne

Cheers!

9 posted on 03/09/2012 3:46:09 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ColdOne
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md)

This is the same jackass who call us Un-American in an OpEd he wrote with Nancy Pelosi. We elephants have long memories. What a jerk.

10 posted on 03/09/2012 3:46:38 PM PST by BAW (We're ALL Breitbart now.)
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To: muawiyah

But the media was the one beating the Foley drum.

Weiner....old news. when was the last time Weiner or Corzine made the front page?

a pervert and a Madoff wannabe, and nobody but hardcore news junkies know or care about it.


11 posted on 03/09/2012 3:48:33 PM PST by digger48
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To: ColdOne
Good, maybe this time around it will cost them the Senate too.
12 posted on 03/09/2012 3:50:19 PM PST by lula ( Wonder what Breitbart was working on that the Obama Administration could not afford to go public)
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To: ColdOne

Hallelujah and Amen!


13 posted on 03/09/2012 3:50:37 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: ColdOne

14 posted on 03/09/2012 3:52:05 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: ColdOne

I sure hope we didn’t have to pay for this.


15 posted on 03/09/2012 3:52:39 PM PST by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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To: ColdOne

And I cannot believe people are voting for Romneycare in this primary. Even, the dems see it’s a losing policy and they are going to get punished for doing this (Praying the right person is elected to stop Obamacare/gut it/de fund it.


16 posted on 03/09/2012 3:53:19 PM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt and would love to see political dead bodies on the floor.)
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To: digger48

Campaign video ~.......... ~ BTW, Willy Horton was safely in jail back when the Algore raked (greek name, how do you spell it) over the coals. He was old, cold news.


17 posted on 03/09/2012 3:55:15 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: ColdOne

and here’s I’ve been thinking it was their stand on Amish relations...


18 posted on 03/09/2012 3:57:36 PM PST by bigbob
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To: muawiyah

True...

But would Romney run such a campaign against a non-republican?


19 posted on 03/09/2012 4:00:41 PM PST by digger48
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To: ColdOne

Study shows health care bill may have cost Democrats the House
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Ya think???


20 posted on 03/09/2012 4:04:32 PM PST by no dems (No RINO-Rom, no Kook-Daddy and no "out of touch" Rev. Rick........Gingrich.... YES!!!)
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