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Obamacare Is Slightly More Popular Than It Used To Be

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We’ve seen a bunch of recent polling that shows an uptick in support for Obamacare now that the prospect of gutting it has become more real. However, as with any polling, you can get a better picture of what things really look like if you aggregate all the polls. Here is Pollster’s aggregate for Obamacare approval:

There has been an upward trend over the past six months of about five points or so. The rise since Donald Trump’s election has been a little less than two points. Technically, then, Obamacare is “more popular than ever,” but not by a lot.

Hopefully this trend will continue, but for now it’s not something to hang our hats on. We’re far better off hammering Republicans on specific features of Obamacare that truly have very high support: the pre-existing conditions ban, the cap on out-of-pocket payments, the tax credits, the Medicaid expansion, etc. That’s most likely where the battle will be won or lost.

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Chris Christie Tells Iowans That Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Are Liars

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign never really caught steam. In Iowa, he’s barely registering in the polls, and in New Hampshire (seemingly friendlier territory) he’s generally in sixth place. So with the first votes fast approaching, he’s settled on a strategy of attacking the non-Trump frontrunners, particularly Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, as dishonest politicians who are lying to voters.

At a town hall at the University of Iowa early Saturday morning, Christie devoted much of his stump speech to lambasting Cruz and Rubio for dissembling when it comes to their stances on immigration reform. “Here’s my only problem with Sen. Rubio and Sen. Cruz: they won’t tell you the truth,” Christie warned the Iowans, noting their equivocation on the immigration issue during Thursday’s GOP debate. “They stood there and tried to tell you that what you saw and what you heard, you didn’t see and you didn’t hear. That they didn’t change their positions at all. Sen. Rubio in particular.”

Christie led up to his attacks on Rubio and Cruz by making it clear that he actually doesn’t mind the traditional flip-flopping on issues that you see politicians make over long careers. “That’s ok, isn’t it? Isn’t it ok for thinking, breathing adults to change their mind,” Christie said. “I can tell you that the things I felt and believed in my 30s, a lot of those I feel differently about now that I’m in my 50s. I’ve had a life, had a lot of experiences, learned a lot of things. Hopefully, for god’s sake, we don’t stay static from the time we’re in our 20s and 30s to the time we’re in our 60s.”

But that’s not what Rubio and Cruz were up to, Christie said. It was switching positions without an honest reckoning, a disqualifying credential for a presidential candidate in Christie’s estimation. “The thing that disturbed me, the thing that I think is instructive about that moment in the debate,” Christie concluded, “is if they’re not going to tell you the truth about that, what else are they not going to tell you the truth about?”

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Hundreds of cyclists demand safer Austin streets

Hundreds of cyclists demand safer Austin streets

On Thursday night, Austin, Texas, was like a microcosm of modern urban American cycling. Downtown, people gathered at benefit concerts to raise money for the mounting medical bills of a local man struck and critically injured by a drunk driver in October.

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Meanwhile, nearly 1,200 cyclists biked to the state capitol in a really, really sad kind of Critical Mass, with one cargo bike toting a large banner that read: “No More Deaths.” The event was sponsored by the group Please Be Kind to Cyclists, which is about as passive as you can get when it comes to life-or-death street safety issues.

Over the last few years, Austin has seen some of the most explosive growth in bike commuting in the country. Hopefully its infrastructure, governance, and vehicle-wielding residents will catch up soon.

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