Whether we are at a tipping point in the 2014 election depends, first, on whether Democrats can get to a strong economic message – and next week we will be releasing our results on the women’s economic agenda. But it will depend further on whether the Affordable Care Act – now at a tipping point – is embraced with enthusiasm by its natural base of supporters and whether they become willing to defend its benefits against the threat of repeal at the ballot box.
The Republicans have bet heavily on Obamacare’s unpopularity, but that misreads the public’s views on the Affordable Care Act. The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund finds evidence that prompts us to urge the political class to re-examine its assumptions about the Affordable Care Act and about this being a Republican year. CONT.
Stan Greenberg, James Carville & Erica Seifert, Democracy Corps