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Only 35% of those questioned in the poll say they support the health care law, a 5-point drop in less than a month. Sixty-two percent say they oppose the law, up four points from November.Nearly all of the newfound opposition is coming from women.
“Opposition to Obamacare rose six points among women, from 54% in November to 60% now, while opinion of the new law remained virtually unchanged among men,” CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
Why the shift? People are starting to realize Obamacare is going to make them poorer:
Here’s a better measure of what people think about the Affordable Care Act: 63% of respondents think that it’s going to make their health care cost more, compared to only 28% who think it will stay the same — and only 7% who think it’s going to make it more affordable. The last time CNN polled on that question was September 2009, when a majority thought it would make no difference or help it cost less (51%) as compared to 47% who thought it would make it more expensive. As the price tag becomes clear, so does the opposition based on its reality.
Meanwhile, Team Get Enrolled is now doing information events in…packed nightclubs. And that’s going about as well as you’d expect.
Washington’s new health insurance exchange dispatched a sign-up envoy to one of the city’s gay clubs one recent night to get out the word about Obamacare. It envisioned men mingling on the dance floor, a cocktail in one hand and enrollment information in the other.But the brochures about DC Health Link, as the exchange is called, weren’t snapped up as quickly as the free condoms provided by a local clinic.
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That strategy has clear challenges, however. In a packed nightclub like Town Danceboutique in Northwest D.C., music smothers conversation, dimmed lights make reading difficult, and health coverage is not what’s on people’s minds.
“They’re looking to let loose. They’re not looking to talk about serious topics,” patron Maven Saleh said as he surveyed the Town crowd on a winter weekend.
Add an appearance by Santa wearing a “Naughty” hat as he posed for pictures on stage, and DC Health Link assister John Esposito had a near-impossible task that night. Positioned behind the stage and bar area, he stood by a small table offering not just information about insurance enrollment but packages of condoms and tubes of lubricant. The latter items were courtesy of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which also had its HIV testing van parked outside.
One more thing: The Administration, which is nothing but spin and bullshit, has some new spin and bullshit on Pajamaboy. They seem to have just thought of this in the past 24 hours — see, they didn’t really think Pajamaboy was cool or anything. They actually intended Pajamaboy to be a negative image, like “This is what people who don’tsign up with Obamacare look like.”
So they’re now claiming — like, two weeks too late for this to be plausible — that Pajamaboy was always intended as the Goofus, not as the Gallant, of health insurance status.
Pajama Boy.
If there ever was an individual who invoked Phil Robertson-like thoughts and statements from me, it was him, only my reactions would not be based in benevolent Christianity. God help anyone who sees this poor specimen as “normal” based on the people he, himself, hangs around with. AND, God help US if that is where our culture is headed. A country of what CS Lewis called “Men without chests”. My view on life insists that individuals/cultures are only as vital as what they believe themselves to be and this fool is the poster child of figurative and apparently, literal impotence.
BTW: isn’t presenting a massively effeminate childish dork in an advertisement as a person to be mocked also offensive to the damaged DNA crowd? Why is GLAAD silent on this? Is Obamacare not a single identifiable Christian, conservative, white male, therefore it is not a target worthy of attacking? 40 years of laudable effort at shedding unacceptable, non-social bigotry yet in the last 5-10 years I find myself reading the news and reacting by backsliding deeper, almost daily, into gut level homophobia and racism. Can’t they JUST SHUT UP?
The last homosexual friend I had was a lesbian of impressive stature– in my prime, I was 6’2″, 240# and she looked me level in the eyes and was just a little less muscular than me. I had known her and liked her platonically for a long time. Though we had never discussed it, she was rather obviously what she was without any shame. It was not an issue between us and I never mentioned it either because before anything else, I was able to see the good human who also accepted me. One day after some offensive “Gay Rights” demo, she just blurted out frustration with these people whose approach to acceptance was aggression. What I carried away from that moment was a better understanding of the human-ness of our differences and the fact was that all she wanted to do was to proceed with her life in peace, not stir the pot with those who would represent themselves as typical and spokesmen for their group. No one, myself included, seems to have more than a tiny portion of restraint anymore. Most of what I see coming from this administration seems to be similarly defensive, divisive rhetoric- designed to set us apart and capitalize on that split, thereby exacerbating the ugliness of the current cultural mood. I see the hideous possibility of a future like Syria. Not in my country, please. We need Jughead to go away– quietly or kicking and screaming, but away.