Morning Plum: Yes, Some Vulnerable Democrats Are Standing Up For Obamacare - WaPo

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Morning Plum: Yes, some vulnerable Democrats are standing up for Obamacare
By Greg Sargent - WaPo
October 23 at 9:16 AM

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Don’t look now, but some of the most embattled Democratic Senators and candidates have actually been offering a surprisingly spirited defense of the political Ebola otherwise known as Obamacare. And get this: Some of them have actually spoken up a bit for its success in expanding health coverage to poor people. Remarkably, they have not yet imploded.

A narrative has developed even among some proponents of the law that Democrats have uniformly run away from it. No question, many Dems have been reticent to embrace it, let alone run ads touting it, but the story is more complicated than that.

Jill Lawrence has a good piece reporting on the politics of Obamacare with the sort of nuance that many commentators refuse to bring to the subject. Yes, Republicans are running a lot of attack ads about the law, and yes, those are probably hurting Democrats. But at the same time, Republicans are retreating from, and dissembling madly about, their repeal stance. And Democrats are not playing to type: http://www.nationalmemo.com/coming-republican-retreat-obamacare/

Though they aren’t making ads to heap praise on Obamacare, Democratic Senate candidates do know how to defend it in debates and on the trail. Iowa’s Bruce Braley talks about his nephew who, because of the ACA, will never have to worry about becoming uninsurable due to his “pre-existing condition” of having survived liver cancer at age 2. Alison Lundergan Grimes talks about more than a half million Kentuckians who are “for the first time ever” filling prescriptions, seeing doctors and getting checkups. “I will not be the senator who rips that insurance from their hands,” she says.

There’s more. In North Carolina, Kay Hagan has...

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