How do you know Republicans are shifting their message against Obamacare? Because Americans for Prosperity just aired a TV ad that doesn’t mention healthcare reform.
After the months and millions invested by AFP in attacking the Affordable Care Act, that line almost passes for a joke. The group is attacking, alright—but not on Obamacare. …
Ongoing primaries and Tea Party pressures mean any shift from “repeal” to “fix” and “free market solutions,” much less beyond that to specific fixes and solutions, can’t be clean. In NV-04, a Tea Party group is attacking the mainstream conservative candidate ahead of the June 10 primary for allegedly saying “he wants to go to Congress to fix” Obamacare.
But research arguing for tempering the monolithic “repeal” may be mounting, whether it’s Public Opinion Strategies’ omnibus polling showing equal support for candidates who want to “keep and fix” the ACA and “repeal and replace” it, or other results making the rounds reportedly showing that going full-bore negative on the ACA looks likely to be a net negative for the GOP on Election Day by costing them key support. CONT.
Elizabeth Wilner, Cook Political Report