Just because he lied doesn't mean we get a do-over, polls notwithstanding

Got this from Instapundit, who linked to Weasel Zippers, who got it from The Daily Caller -- got all that? -- so it isn't new and original, but it seems a lot of folks are noticing this. "This" is a poll that indicates that, had Obama voters known he was lying when he told folks that "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.", then Barry would have lost.

If voters had been aware last year that they might lose their health-care plans when Obamacare went into effect, Republican President Mitt Romney would be sitting in the White House today, according to a poll released Friday.
A Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research survey conducted from Nov. 18-20 asked voters who supported President Barack Obama in 2012: “As you may know, millions of Americans have lost their insurance plans despite President Obama’s promise that, quote, ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it.’ If you knew in 2012 that this promise was not true, would you still have voted for Barack Obama?”
In response, 23 percent said they would not have voted to re-elect Obama, while 72 percent said they would still have voted for him. The largest number of defections were among female voters ages 18-54, 31 percent of whom said they would not have supported the president.

The sample is fairly small, and the margin of error is moderately large, so you can take this with a grain of salt, but I am inclined to believe that if people know a politician is lying to them straight up about an important issue, they won't vote for him. Maybe I'm wrong. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Anybody who knew anything about the Obamacare law knew he was lying, and there were too few of us to make a difference, so he won. Woulda-coulda-shoulda don't mean shit to a tree.

I'm not even sure why people waste money on "what if" polls. It is a game for children. Adults look at what happened and try to change it going forward. You can't change the past. We are now in a mode of minimizing the damage of what Barry has done to the country, and what he will continue to try to do. That is the fight that matters. If you're not willing to fight that fight, and fight to win, you might as well spend your money on polls asking whether Romney would have won if he hadn't run such a terrible campaign. Or maybe whether Custer would have beaten Sitting Bull if he hadn't sent Reno and Benteen off with two-thirds of his men. Whatever.