Ezra Klein spotlights a potential problem for the GOP in 2012: in 2010, candidates incited the party's base and the nation's seniors to fear and loathe the Medicare spending reductions with which Democrats largely funded the Affordable Care Act -- and now, just a few months later, the party has backed Ryan's plan to privatize and radically devalue Medicare. Klein further notes a polling anomaly: Republicans are far more averse than Democrats to any attempts to reform Medicare:
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Ezra Klein spotlights a potential problem for the GOP in 2012: in 2010, candidates incited the party's base and the nation's seniors to fear and loathe the Medicare spending reductions with which Democrats largely funded the Affordable Care Act -- and now, just a few months later, the party has backed Ryan's plan to privatize and radically devalue Medicare. Klein further notes a polling anomaly: Republicans are far more averse than Democrats to any attempts to reform Medicare: