[Utmost Certainty]

Heh, that’s actually a really good point re: many in the GOP painting Obama as a tax-raising fiend given the fact that he hasn’t actually done this (yet).

I suppose a counterpoint at least, is he does often talk about upping taxes “bla bla millionaires billionaires fair share bla bla”. And I do believe he’d raise taxes of course given decent political cover (i.e. 2nd term)… but, since he hadn’t actually done so, perhaps in some way this made Obama’s naysayers look the fool for being klaxons on this issue in the eyes of those without strong opinions about Obama, which may’ve hurt the process of building a case against him.

Arguably there’s a lot of echo chamber effect / bunker mentality among GOP voters, such that everyone’s mutually agreeing with and reinforcing antipathies against Obama, which causes us to lose perspective on the fact that… other non-Democrat voters may not feel quite the same as we do.

[rdb3]

Arguably there’s a lot of echo chamber effect / bunker mentality among GOP voters, such that everyone’s mutually agreeing with and reinforcing antipathies against Obama, which causes us to lose perspective on the fact that… other non-Democrat voters may not feel quite the same as we do.

You're saying more than you think here!

The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow

[Alberta's Child]

Here's something else for you to consider:

One of the most remarkable provisions of Obamacare was the $700+ billion in Medicare cuts that were included to reduce the impact of Obamacare on Federal budgets over the next ten years. That item alone would have been considered an outrageous crime against humanity if a Republican had ever signed the bill into law.