USA Today Pairs Bad News in Obamacare Poll With Blame for Republicans; Compares Them to Antebellum Slave States

James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal denounced Susan Page of USA Today as “preposterous” for claiming the unpopularity of Obamacare can be blamed on Republicans pressing for its repeal. Page began: “Republican lawmakers have failed in dozens of attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but a new USA Today/Pew Research Center Poll shows just how difficult they have made it for President Obama's signature legislative achievement to succeed.” Page even turned to Thomas Mann, a fire-breathing hater of Republicans, to compare them to slave-owning Southern states before the Civil War:

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