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Posted on 09/23/2013 9:51:39 AM PDT by yoe
The poll data is clear and cuts across party lines: 92 percent of the public does not think it is right that Congress and their staff are letting the Obama administration exempt them from the costs of Obamacare. Yet it seems many in Congress still want to dismiss these findings in hopes that these sentiments won't translate into actual voter preferences.
Incumbents facing reelections shouldn't fool themselves. A recent real-world deployment of the issue shows it can powerfully impact candidates’ prospects.
As for the strategists, the message is clear: Get your incumbents on the right side of the issue, or spend election night on the edge of your seat; get your challengers on the right side of the issue, and prepare to win where you didn’t previously think possible.
We tested the effect of the congressional exemption issue in six different 2014 races, which represent different election archetypes. We launched incumbent-specific, small but targeted, week-long communications campaigns, using mail, phones and internet, (but no TV or radio), directed at 7,500 likely voters. Then we analyzed the criteria regularly used by campaign strategists to measure the strength of an incumbent’s reelection campaign: the "hard re-elect", or the percentage of voters who say they will vote to reelect the incumbent; the "hard vote against", or the percentage of voters who say they will vote against an incumbent; and the "ballot test", or how the incumbent fares when matched up against his challenger.
[snip] The incumbents against whom we tested the issue were: Sen. Mark Udall, Democrat from Colorado; Sen. Mary Landrieu, Democrat from Louisiana; Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina; Rep. John Tierney, Democrat from Massachusetts; Rep. Jim Matheson, Democrat from Utah; and U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, Republican from Idaho.
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It is also illegal for the Executive Branch to rewrite portions of a law that have been passed into law. Where is the opposition party?
The opposition party supports the continuation of government subsidies to themselves and their staffs for health care costs. Both parties are corrupt.
Any incumbent that voted to exempt themselves or their families or staff, will face a torrent of ads from their opponents over this one thing. Americans will be enraged and will take their anger out on the ones who did this...............
There are only two parties in this country: THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE VOTERS.............
Politicians and their families get sick too, especially our geriatrics in the Senate and House who are at an age where care is critical and they would not qualify under the death panels, and these politicians fully understand just how bad ObamaCare is going to be. It's great to be in favor of rationed care and "cost benefit analysis of care options' until you are the ones who are being denied care by a bureaucratic death panel.
Listen up! We're talking to you ... Linda Graham!
This is as large an opportunity for our side as any out there.
Single moms, hispanics and most liberals must be upset (or can be made upset) by the idea of exemptions.
Who voted for authorizing exemptions?
When was the debate held?
Why was this not mentioned in 2009?
What would the Supreme Court say about exemptions?
This reminds me of the attemt to make electricty an open market in 2000 in California. Rolling blackouts, except for the exempted.
This is the low hanging fruit that house GOP shouldnt ignore if what we think happens does.
The worst part is congress specifically put a provision in O-care bill to force congresss and staff and families to get insurance through Obama-care
Then they went to Obama after election and begged him for this handout.
You mean the spineless Pubbies? Attacking Ted Cruz and standing up for Socialized Healthcare for America, that's where.
What the GOP needs to do is demand that we either exempt no one or exempt everyone. Repeat this over and over, put it on signs, emails and bumper stickers.
The bumper stickers are so liberals will understand it.
expand the 14th amendment to include Equal Application of ALL US LAW, no one can be exempted from any law, not even the Congress, the Supreme Court nor the President
There is no way for them to get away with it. The public has short attention span but this is not going away. When the taxpayers have to pay fir the non working voters and their bribees , the congress, and pay a lot, it won’t go away
It will not be accepted.
Every taker/legislator that doesn’t vote against this will be on record and can scream about Gingrich having shut down the govt and bush having been evil all he wants but he’ll be out. Ted Cruz is making it possible not from his own ideas but from the will of the people and the rule of law and the constitution.
The corruption just has to stop
This was a poison pill that the democrats intended to dump the whole time. This is what they did with the border fence. This is what they will do with the border security piece of immigration reform.
This didn't stop the dems from using the "it's a law" talking point on Friday. Evidently hypocrisy is a word they think only applies in the third person, never in the first person. The GOP should hook the defund legislation to the gutting of the original bill, not just the fact that the bill will crush a failing economy.
This morning on Fox, Graham was very supportive of the House and Ted Cruz.
He said Obamacare was a terrible bill. It will be used to defeat democrats in the upcoming 2014 election.
He, also, said that Rep King was not correct re only one al Queda US group was sending Islamofacists over seas to fight and to try and kill Americans here.
He was very blunt about both issues.
Best story of the Month ... Obamacare is ‘Cryptonite’
There was NO vote and there never will be that's the point. Obama did it for them. Now they can all claim they did not support it and keep the money.
It will go away. Obama got reelected. Discussion over.
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