Democrats Divided on How to Recover from Obamacare

The National Journal reports:

How much should Democrats worry about Obamacare politics in 2014? Even the party's top political minds can't agree.

On Thursday, senior Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg told reporters that the Republican focus on hitting Democrats over Obamacare was a political "trap." Citing a new Democracy Corps poll he helped conduct, Greenberg said if Republican dwell on repealing the law while Democrats focus on fixing the economy, Democrats will come out on top.

"I know there is an initial opportunity in going after the rollout … I would argue this is a trap," he said. "The more they're on this, the more voters say they're just part of this extreme partisan gridlock [in Congress], and they're not addressing the economy and jobs."

Greenberg acknowledged the law's troubled rollout had cost President Obama and his party, and that, on a substantive level, the law needed to perform better. But his bottom-line assessment sounded like a relatively sanguine one: Don't worry, Democrats, you can win this fight aganst a still deeply unpopular Republican Party.

Stan rallies the troops!