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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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