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Originally Posted by dth123451
It depends. The individual mandate was a republican idea 20 years ago. Nobody remembers or cares.
But **** like civil rights, the huge.stuff...people remember.
I agree with you, but people forgetting that the mandate was a Republican idea didn't happen just because Democrats started championing it. They forgot because Republicans started fighting it tooth and nail. Had the great Obamacare debate been Boehner saying, "Oh, you guys warmed up to that Heritage Foundation ****? Sounds good to us. We've been trying to get that for years!" then, no, the Democrats would not get as much credit from the public for health care reform as they do now.
On immigration, if the Republicans start saying that the DREAM Act sounds like a good idea, and that
jus soli is the law of the land, and that we don't need a giant electified fence with a moat and alligators and sniper towers, Democrats aren't going to fight them tooth and nail Were they to, then yeah, maybe some Latinos would flip. But the Dems would be like "Glad to have you on board, bros. Welcome to the 21st century. Thanks for finally coming around to our ideas." That doesn't score the GOP any points with anyone except those people who agree with the GOP platform plank for plank but are single issue voters on immigration. There aren't a lot of those people.