With Obama's job approval ratings trending below 50%, and health care looking like it may settle into the 30's, Democrats are rallying moderates to health care reform with the following narrative: sure, passing this may be unpopular, but failing to pass it will be even more unpopular! The only problem is, Brendan Nyhan suggests that this isn't, like, true.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.