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Politico: Dems retreat on health care cost pitch (promises to "improve it")
Politico ^ | August 19, 2010 | Journ0Lista: BEN (d'over) SMITH

Posted on 08/19/2010 4:49:57 PM PDT by maggief

Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to "improve it."

The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by FamiliesUSA — one of the central groups in the push for the initial legislation. The call was led by a staffer for the Herndon Alliance, which includes leading labor groups and other health care allies. It was based on polling from three top Democratic pollsters, John Anzalone, Celinda Lake, and Stan Greenberg

The confidential presentation, available in full here and provided to POLITICO by a source on the call, suggests that Democrats are acknowledging the failure of their predictions that the health care legislation would grow more popular after its passage, as its benefits became clear and rhetoric cooled. Instead, the presentation is designed to win over a skeptical public, and to defend the legislation — and in particular the individual mandate — from a push for repeal.

The presentation concedes that groups typically supportive of Democratic causes — people under 40, non-college educated women, and Hispanic voters — have not been won over by the plan. Indeed, it stresses repeatedly, many are unaware that the legislation has passed, an astonishing shortcoming in the White House's all-out communications effort.

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1 posted on 08/19/2010 4:49:58 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2573881/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2573885/posts


2 posted on 08/19/2010 4:53:17 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: maggief
and instead stressing a promise to "improve it."

How about this?

They can shove it.


3 posted on 08/19/2010 4:53:31 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: maggief; Nachum; justiceseeker93; Howie66; unkus; flat; freekitty; MamaDearest; Clintonfatigued; ...

REPEAL, REPEAL, REPEAL the Imam Obama/Pelosi/Reid genocide of the elderly disabled, and whomever else Big Brother deems unworthy of life.


4 posted on 08/19/2010 4:53:32 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010.)
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To: maggief

REPEAL it - you closed door hypocrites! No American wants your socialism in any way, shape or form!


5 posted on 08/19/2010 4:55:02 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: maggief

The presentation’s final page of “Don’ts” counsels against claiming “the law will reduce costs and deficit.”

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM153_pp.html


6 posted on 08/19/2010 4:56:02 PM PDT by maggief (xcddd)
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To: maggief

Its obvious the Dems are crapping themselves on several fronts for the midterms and the titanic has hit the iceberg and taking on water.


7 posted on 08/19/2010 4:56:12 PM PDT by sunmars
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To: maggief

The presentation’s final page of “Don’ts” counsels against claiming “the law will reduce costs and deficit.”

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM153_pp.html


8 posted on 08/19/2010 4:56:12 PM PDT by maggief
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To: La Lydia

Thanks. Politico changed the title.


9 posted on 08/19/2010 4:57:19 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Every word is a lie from these democrat party monsters.

Every.

Word.


10 posted on 08/19/2010 4:57:43 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: maggief

I know they change them every couple of hours, the reason I posted is so people can see the other comments; on the first one someone posted the graphics, too.


11 posted on 08/19/2010 4:58:51 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: maggief
"Trust Us" Version 4,876,997


12 posted on 08/19/2010 4:59:55 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: La Lydia

I appreciate it.


13 posted on 08/19/2010 5:01:54 PM PDT by maggief
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To: La Lydia; maggief
In fairness to maggief, those links you posted are for different titles. Those don't come up (at all) on FR searches for titles, and even using similar keywords, they may not hit.

Therefore, her post is not a duplicate.

14 posted on 08/19/2010 5:04:05 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: La Lydia

missouri


15 posted on 08/19/2010 5:06:25 PM PDT by FrankR (It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
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To: SkyPilot

I hope Boehner knocks her in the head with that gavel in Jan.


16 posted on 08/19/2010 5:10:51 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: maggief

This attempt to change the conversation is nothing more than an alinsky-like attempt to ratchet the march to a socialist state. They want to “lock in” having the monster by moving from a contentious argument to something new, potentially just as contentious, that would take months for the public to digest, getting past the mid-terms, before the public vomits it up [too].


17 posted on 08/19/2010 5:13:41 PM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
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To: SkyPilot

If you will take the time to look at the posts, you will see that Maggie and I already discussed this, and why I posted the links.


18 posted on 08/19/2010 5:15:11 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: SkyPilot
These people in the pix make me sick - I hope their end is near - they are so disgusting, I cannot express my outrage at these scumbags, or at what I'd like to do to them given half a chance. ESAD, scumb, go to Cuba, commies. Do not infest this once great country any more.

I spit on you, your pictures, your names, your legacy. I squat on you, you pestilence.

19 posted on 08/19/2010 5:15:41 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: FormerACLUmember

“Every word is a lie from these democrat party monsters.”

Ya mean like that racist Muslim nig Andre Carson!


20 posted on 08/19/2010 5:32:09 PM PDT by rj45mis
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