In banking and insurance the definition of success is getting the right number of the right kind of customers. Exceeding your goals can be good. Or bad. It is an indicator that you may have underpriced your product relative to the risk you are incurring. And since the US govt. is reinsuring all of this business it is John Q Taxpayer that is at risk.
For political reporters to understand this requires that they ask the right questions. And for them to do that they must genuinely want to know the answer. Which in our DC monoculture is the real problem.
Which is why you get football spiking analogies. Because as any drunk cheerleader at a wild party can attest: it's easy to get people to line up to screw you.
Ignorantly inappropriate celebration at the link.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/barack-obama-health-care-takeaways-105806.html?hp=t1
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