A study in reporting style contrasts

There are two fresh polls out - one from NBC/WSJ, and one from USA Today/Pew - that show that Freedom-Hater-care is still overwhelmingly loathed.

Now, here's the interesting part of this.  Consider the difference in reportage about each.  Mark Murray at NBC News focuses on its complexity and costliness:

[M]ost Americans say they don't have a good grasp of what the law entails. Thirty-four percent say they don’t understand the law very well, and another 35 percent say they understand it only “some.”

“Call any insurance company and ask them any question about the new health-care law, and they don’t understand,” said a New Jersey Republican man who opposes the law.

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Yet a lack of information isn't the only hurdle that the Obama administration and its allies face in implementing the law. For one thing, a whopping 73 percent of respondents say they're already satisfied with their coverage. 

It's true that Murray points out that the 30 percent who claim to understand the law "fairly" or "very" well have a more positive view of it, but he does a woefully inadequate job of proving, via any kind of quotes, that they do indeed understand it well.

Anyway, compare and contrast the emphasis of his article with that of Susan Page's in USA Today:

WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers have failed in dozens of attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but a new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll shows just how difficult they have made it for President Obama's signature legislative achievement to succeed.

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"There has been a full-court press from Day One from the opposition to characterize and demonize the plan," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution, who wrote about the GOP efforts in a 2012 book about Washington he co-authored, It's Even Worse Than It Looks. "The campaign against the law after it was enacted, the range of steps taken, the effort to delegitimize it — it is unprecedented. We'd probably have to go back to the nullification efforts of the Southern states in the pre-Civil War period to find anything of this intensity."

Well, of course there has, and we're going to continue it, pal.

I'm kind of taking a shine to the "obstructionist" label.  Maybe if the United States  of America can be restored and we aren't faced with a uniformly destructive barrage of initiatives from government, pro-freedom folks can be something other than that.