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House Democrats are looking for a way to blunt their Obamacare woes.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats campaign arm, is about to embark on a large-scale public opinion survey that will in part seek to uncover how voters in key districts across America feel about the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
The DCCC bi-annual National Research Project, which begins in the next several weeks, will also include focus groups across several dozens competitive districts. The DCCC is devoting much of its energy to uncovering how and how much they should talk about the battered health care law.
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Its an issue that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats need to figure out quickly if they want to be competitive in November. The party is stinging from a disappointing loss in Tuesdays special election in Florida, which is being blamed in part on the Democratic candidates struggle to turn Obamacare into an advantage.
Rep. Steve Israel, the New York Democrat who chairs the DCCC, said party leaders will use the results including the data on Obamacare to help their rank-and-file members craft individual responses to ACA-related attacks and criticism.
Were going to be focusing on women, were going to be focusing on middle-class economic issues, and of course, well be looking at the Affordable Care Act, Israel said in an interview Thursday. The Affordable Care Act is not the reason for the research project, but the ACA will be part of it.
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Israel, like Pelosi, President Barack Obama, top White House officials and legions of progressive pundits believe that Obamacare will be a boon in the long run even if it doesnt feel that way right now.
All of the polling that I am looking at in battleground districts with swing voters says that the average swing voter would prefer to fix and improve the Affordable Care Act than to repeal it, Israel said. That theory will be in the research project.
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WASHINGTON Democrats are becoming increasingly alarmed about their midterm election fortunes amid President Barack Obama's sinking approval ratings, a loss in a special House election in Florida last week, and millions of dollars spent by Republican-aligned groups attacking the new health law.
The combination has led to uncharacteristic criticism of Obama and bitter complaints that his vaunted political organization has done little to help the party's vulnerable congressional candidates.
The latest in a cascade of bad news came Friday when Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts now living in New Hampshire, announced an exploratory committee to challenge the incumbent Democrat, Jeanne Shaheen, and when the Republican-aligned "super PAC" American Crossroads said it would spend $600,000 to help his effort.
Earlier, another top-tier Republican recruit, Rep. Cory Gardner, decided to challenge Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado; the two races create unanticipated opportunities improving Republicans' chances to take control of the Senate. No prominent Democrats predict that their party will win back the House.
Interviews with more than two dozen Democratic members of Congress, state party officials and strategists revealed a new urgency about the need to address the party's prospects.
One Democratic lawmaker, who asked not to be identified, said Obama was becoming "poisonous" to the party's candidates. At the same time, Democrats are pressing senior aides to Obama for help from the political network.
"I'm a prolific fundraiser, but I can't compete with somebody who has got 50-some-odd billion dollars," said Rep. Joe Garcia of Florida, a vulnerable first-term member who has already faced more than $500,000 in negative TV ads from third-party conservative groups. "One hopes the cavalry is coming. One hopes the cavalry is coming."
The gap is yawning. Outside Republican groups have spent about $40 million in this election cycle, compared with $17 million by Democrats.
When two senior White House officials Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director, and Phil Schiliro, the health care adviser went to the Capitol late last month to address Senate Democrats about the Affordable Care Act, they were met with angry questions about why Obama's well-funded advocacy group, Organizing for Action, was not airing commercials offering them cover on the health law.
Among those raising concerns was Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, who also has a low-key style and warm relationship with Obama.
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