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and everybody said kentucky is the model state for implementing obamacare. matt bevin got elected governor. trump and rand paul got elected both running on repealing it obamacare. thing projection of electoral calamity saying they re going to be tarred with the vote and it s going to cost them their seats. this is what democrats want republicans to believe. there s not a shred of evidence that following through on a campaign promise that led to republican majorities in congress is going to cost anybody a seat next year. let her respond. 17% of americans like the versions of the republican plan, the affordable care act has a majority approval rating. campaigning and voting on something that has 17% approval rating and even if you look purely at trump voters only, it s 25% approval rating. it is at astronomically, i m mixing it the metaphor, low, abysmally low numbers. it is not a good strategy. it is not a good thing to ask them to walk the plank on. and i mean, you know, maybe the
anybody a seat next year. 17% of americans like the versions of the republican plan, the affordable care act has a majority approval rating. campaigning and voting on something that has 17% approval rating and even if you look purely at trump voters only, it s 25% approval rating. it is at astronomically, i m mixing it the metaphor, low, abysmally low numbers. it is not a good strategy. it is not a good thing to ask them to walk the plank on. and i mean, you know, maybe the rules of politics don t apply anymore. i agree with you on that, given this president. but i think when you re talking about real people and not just political projections, when you are talking about potentially 32 million people losing their health care, that is not just a guess. that is real for them. you talked about the polling on obamacare versus the
ted cruz made a career off being the anti-establishment guy. he s been the outsider who wasn t supposed to win that race. he wasn t supposed to have influence in washington. he wasn t supposed to he doesn t. he has a platform to run for president. he walks into a room hold on. all politicians are opportunists. they all are saying i haven t. they might say they are going to run for officend be a big person. ted cruz can fill a room in texas, he s loved in texas. ted cruz is a threat to jeb bush. that what is this is about. look at george w. bush s approval rating, among republicans 88%. among a plurality, he has majority approval rating. that would shock people thinking
in niece these numbers. they want to say obama s best days are behind him and his numbers are going down and whatever he accomplished already is going to be as much as he gets done and they want to put the exclamation point on that in the mid terms. poll numbers energize republican strategists. they say obama is not this big person who is a big danger to us in the midterm. scary for the democrats. it is scary for the democrats and troubling for the president but i also think some history is worth pointing out and if you read through the full report from gallup they note out that the note that obama is not alone and sort of facing this dip in his second year. bill clinton 43% total approval rating and ronald reagan 42% and all below the majority approval rating of july in their second year in office. it does happen that presidents in their second year in office do have a tough time. pat? if i were the republicans i would get out of the way. i don t think they are doing