Rove: The electoral consequences of killing Medicare Advantage
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HOT AIR
Obama already has problems with seniors. His polling numbers have dropped dramatically among older voters, who see his targeting of Medicare and Medicare Advantage as dangerous to their health-care coverage. Continuing to press for its elimination will certainly motivate them to fight back at the voting booth in 2010.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s agenda has lost favor with the majority of Americans now that they’ve taken off the masks and laid it out for the nation to see. Democrats no longer have Bush to run against, although they’ll probably still try to use him as a bogeyman – and will get spanked for doing so. They can’t afford to lose 2,000 seniors in each district, let alone 23,400 – and seniors have the highest turnouts on Election Day.
