When Dems say politics of issue is 'tricky' they are on wrong side of voters

John Podhoretz:

With the Supreme Court marathon on ObamaCare in full swing, the politics of ObamaCare remain tricky — but not in the way conventional opinion describes. 

You’ll hear that while many people say they don’t like the package as a whole, many also tell pollsters they like elements of it — and so ObamaCare can’t really be called unpopular. 

This analysis tends to come from ObamaCare’s partisans, who want to believe that the politics of ObamaCare aren’t the disaster for President Obama and the Democrats that all available evidence suggests they have been and will be.

At the beginning of 2010, Democrats lost Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat because of Republican longshot Scott Brown’s promise to vote against ObamaCare. November 2010 saw the worst congressional election results for the party in power in 80 years and by some measures in American history — and ObamaCare was the most important issue on the minds of voters. 

Yesterday, The New York Times and CBS released a poll indicating that 47 percent of the country disapproves of the Affordable Care Act while only 36 percent approves. Only 56 percent of self-described Democrats approve, an astonishingly low number for Obama’s own people. 

So, yes, the politics of ObamaCare are tricky; they’re tricky because liberals like the law but nobody else does. 

They’re especially tricky right now, because almost any decision the Supreme Court could render would be bad for Barack Obama....

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There is much more.

Democrats also think the politics of a balanced budget amendment are tricky.  They know voters want it, but it would make it harder for them to buy votes.  They thought they were buying votes with the health care law, but it turned out they were buying votes for Republicans who opposed it and refused to give them any cover on the measure.