{"id":11505,"date":"2013-08-29T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:18:15","slug":"the_gop_is_missing_its_chance_to_become_champion_of_a_huge_majority_against_obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/29\/the_gop_is_missing_its_chance_to_become_champion_of_a_huge_majority_against_obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP is Missing Its Chance to Become Champion of a Huge Majority Against Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/52376\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: CBS News: &#8220;Obamacare took another punch to the gut today with 77%,&#8221; this is a new high, &#8220;of American voters believe the individual mandate should be repealed or delayed.&#8221;  Seventy-seven percent! &#8220;According to this new poll by the Morning Consult, not only do 77% of voters think the mandate should be repealed &#8212; or delayed &#8212; but also 65% of Democrats agree.&#8221; It seems like every day there\u2019s a new poll showing a rising percentage of people opposed to this law.  And I, for the life of me, I don\u00c2\u2019t&#8230; I really don\u2019t!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/77-percent-say-individual-mandate-should-be-delayed-or-repealed_742449.html\"><img id=\"eZObject_80721\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPObamacareTicket2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a huge batch of Americans, a majority &#8212; you\u2019d agree that 77% is a majority, right? &#8212; that the Republican Party could connect with here and become their champion, take up their cause, form a relationship with them. It\u2019s 65% of Democrats!  But the Republican Party doesn\u2019t seem to want to get involved here in stopping, delaying, repealing, or defunding Obamacare, \u2019cause they\u2019re so afraid of what the media will say about \u2019em. It\u2019s 77% of the American people, and depending on the poll, it\u2019s anywhere from 60% now to 77% who oppose it, want it repealed or some aspect of it. <\/p>\n<p>That is a huge number of voters with whom the Republicans could form an electoral relationship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: CBS News: &#8220;Obamacare took another punch to the gut today with 77%,&#8221; this is a new high, &#8220;of American voters believe the individual mandate should be repealed or delayed.&#8221; Seventy-seven percent! &#8220;According to this new poll by the Morning Consult, not only do 77% of voters think the mandate should be repealed &#8212; or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The GOP is Missing Its Chance to Become Champion of a Huge Majority Against Obamacare - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/29\/the_gop_is_missing_its_chance_to_become_champion_of_a_huge_majority_against_obamacare\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The GOP is Missing Its Chance to Become Champion of a Huge Majority Against Obamacare - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: CBS News: &#8220;Obamacare took another punch to the gut today with 77%,&#8221; this is a new high, &#8220;of American voters believe the individual mandate should be repealed or delayed.&#8221; Seventy-seven percent! 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