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Republican Voters Would Rather ‘Kill Obamacare’ Than Osama bin Laden | Buried in a new National Journal story about Newt Gingrich’s rise is a revealing anecdote about modern conservatives. Recently, GOP strategist Rick Wilson conducted a focus group where Republicans were asked to choose if they would rather “kill Obamacare” or have killed Osama bin Laden. How did they respond? “They would have killed Obamacare and waited for the actuarial tables [to] play out for bin Laden,” Wilson said. — Karl Singer

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