"In case politics has always mystified you, that's it in a nutshell."

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COMMENT:  The way a survey is written determines what the results of the survey will be. Not a startling revelation.
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One Little Survey Question Explains All of Politics
By Kevin Drum, December 18, 2014

Jonathan Bernstein points to a new Kaiser survey that examines opposition to the individual mandate in Obamacare. Here's what they found:

It remains among the least popular aspects of the law — with just a 35 percent approval rating. But when people are told that the mandate doesn’t affect most Americans because they already have coverage through an employer, support jumps to 62 percent.

It only takes a wee bit of inference to figure out what's really going on here: when people find out that the mandate doesn't apply to them personally, lots of them are suddenly OK with it. In case politics has always mystified you, that's it in a nutshell. Now you know.
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