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"Obamacare: repeal or keep?" with no preface Among the problems with this is that many millions would respond as if the question were "Obama: like or dislike?"
by redler 9y ago
"Obamacare: repeal or keep?" with no preface
Among the problems with this is that many millions would respond as if the question were "Obama: like or dislike?"
It would boil "approval" down to namecraft: how well did the authors of the initiative accurately or deceptively name it? For the millions who know little to nothing about it, how effective is it from a trigger-word/dog-whistle perspective? What kind of group signaling is implied by the response options? (N.B. "Obamacare" is, of course, using what began as a derogatory term among the opposition to the plan).