By Dave Andrusko

Each day brings the Obama administration and congressional Democrats 24 hours closer to D-Day: the November mid-term elections. Each day there is a swathe of news stories that combine an analysis of how badly Democrats are likely to be hurt by voter rejection of ObamaCare and a kind of bedazzled amazement that Obama may think he can still sway the electorate.

Democratic pollster and author Douglas E. Schoen offered his latest take in a piece that ran yesterday in Politico (http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=6149022B-18FE-70B2-A8D1CA70A302E100).

"Despite lofty predictions that a broad-based Democratic constituency would be activated by the health care reform bill, recent polling shows that the bill has been a disaster for the party -- with near 60 percent of voters saying that they oppose the measure," Schoen writes. Indeed, "In recent months, as voters express anger across-the-board with Washington, there may well be no single initiative as unpopular as the administration's health care reform bill."

But what's most interesting is Schoen's [correct] conclusion that "The administration seems to have decided that the widespread public backlash against the health care reform bill, as reflected in this polling for example, is the result of their failure to communicate the bill's benefits effectively."

And surely it's true that there are components of the bill that are popular, such as covering people with preexisting conditions and "extending the time that children to stay on their parents' insurance plans."

But Schoen's comeback is that most people think their own health care will get worse under ObamaCare, not better; think health care costs will go up, not down; and that the national deficit will skyrocket.

And, of course, there is the elephant in the room Schoen ignores: all those pro-lifers who understand that ObamaCare came as a present to the Abortion Establishment, gift wrapped with financial inducements.

We will do our best to educate the public to this grim reality at the same time we emphasize that tucked into those conclusions people have already drawn about the negative impact on their own personal health care and increased cost is the inevitability of rationing.

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