March 31 (Bloomberg) — For the third election cycle, Democrats are still debating their options for handling the political fall-out from passage of the Affordable Care Act: fight, flight or finesse.
Former President Bill Clinton advised fellow Democrats to embrace the law on the campaign trail. Democratic polling expert Celinda Lake, who released a new survey last week, told candidates to avoid it.
"The reality is it's a negative. The reality is you can't walk away from it. The reality is you've got to fight it," said Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist at the Washington, D.C.- based consulting firm Purple Strategies.
In key races, as the now-delayed March 31 deadline for new enrollment on the health insurance exchanges arrives today, Democrats face this reality: The law's a political loser, and there's no easy fix.
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