Where Obamacare dare not speak its name

摘要

The president is unpopular in Kentucky. In its mountainous east, his name is radioactive: in Clay County, for example, he won only 15% of the vote to Mitt Romney's 84% in 2012. Even Democrats have doubts: in the state's primary that year 42% of them chose "uncommitted" rather than vote for Barack Obama. Yet some of his policies are popular-so long as they are not labelled as having anything to do with him. Take the Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare". The people whose job it is to persuade rural Kentuckians to sign up for it play down any connection with Washington, dc, or even with Frankfort, the state capital.