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Laura PourMeADrink

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3. Because the opposition will glom on to anything negative. My MIL's TV never goes to

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 09:05 AM

Nov 2013

anything but FOX....she was over our house and I had MSNBC on and she said "why are they not
talking about ACA?"

IMHO, the Obama Administration made a very critical error. Whenever you roll out a system - you quantify the problems ASAP. If you don't, you leave a void for naysayers to fill. This week you say only 10% got on - then the next week you can show progress by saying now 20%, etc. etc. Instead - all that stuck was "cluster f.."

I stopped listening too when Obama was getting so trashed for "lying" about keeping coverage. It made me feel bad, because most people looked at him like he was lying. I never heard the explanation - did you? Don't understand why he didn't blame the insurers for dropping people? Regardless of how few the segment holds, it gave them ammunition

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