Investors.com - Time For Some To Slip Noose Of ObamaCare

Investors.com - Time For Some To Slip Noose Of ObamaCare: "It's painfully obvious the American people don't want ObamaCare and equally obvious that the Democrats, especially President Obama, don't particularly care.

The Democrats feel inoculated against voter dissatisfaction because they've bought into their own wishful narrative: that voters punished them in 1994 because they failed to pass HillaryCare, not because they tried. Thus, the thinking goes, the way to get voters to forgive them for ObamaCare is to pass it.

They better hope they're right, because there are an abundance of Democrats occupying red-state seats in Congress who appear to be living on borrowed time.

But the surprise announcements by Sens. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota that they won't seek reelection suggest that even Democrats are starting to doubt their own rosy claims about 1994 — with good reason.

To examine what really happened in 1994, we separated the congressional Democrats into ideological thirds (more conservative, typical, and most liberal), using American Conservative Union (ACU) ratings. We then analyzed how each group fared in seeking reelection over the last 20 years."