> Which is proof that they don't answer to polls about the policies in it, but its brand.
It's proof that you can confuse people by calling something one thing for a few years and then ask them about something else and telling them good things about it. Virtually any policy can be made more popular this way.
I guess we agree on the concept, but differ in assumption of whether ACA is unpopular due to smear or favorable in polls due to phrasing.
I'm convinced that (while it having many flaws) no one in the poorer 80% of the country would prefer the AHCA over the ACA if informed on both.
Which might seem obvious economically, but it's also clear that polling or voting doesn't turn out that way, which I take to mean that obfuscation through attack ads and aimed media is doing effective work.
It's proof that you can confuse people by calling something one thing for a few years and then ask them about something else and telling them good things about it. Virtually any policy can be made more popular this way.