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Obamacare Repeal Is Close. So Why Aren’t Conservative Groups More Galvanized?

Out of Gas

They fought the law for nearly a decade. Now that they’re close to a win, they’re losing the PR battle.

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Eight years after they organized en masse to kill Obamacare before it became law and helped Republicans take over Congress in the process, conservative activists are having trouble galvanizing around the GOP’s best and perhaps last chance to do away with the health care act.

Activists on the right have been...

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