Although Florida U.S. Senator Bill Nelson voted for the Affordable Care Act in 2010, like a lot of Democrats, he hasn't exactly been highlighting his advocacy for the controversial law since its passage.
But he did vote for it, and since it will be one of the big issues of his fall campaign against Republican challenger Connie Mack IV, the question is — will Nelson talk about it often during the fall campaign?
"Absolutely," the Democratic Senator told CL in Tampa Monday morning, before going into a lengthy discourse about the various benefits of the bill. Nelson hit the major points that Democrats have repeated for over two years with little success in swaying the public. The rhetoric boils down to this: Once people know what's in the law, they'll dig it.
But that public enlightenment obviously hasn't happened yet, and most polls continue to show that the ACA still faces more opposition than support — even after the John Roberts-led Supreme Court ruling affirmed its constitutionality
This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2012.