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Healthcare.gov = Too much traffic = Unpopular (according to Fox News and company)

As many now know, yesterday was the first day people could check out their healthcare options under the Affordable Care Act at healthcare.gov. While there were numerous reports of people experiencing problems on the site, this was largely due to heavy traffic. This will occur on many sites, such as Twitter, on especially busy occasions. So how did some members of the Fox News team and other like-minded individuals take this? Obamacare is unpopular and has failed.

Allow me to explain something to Fox News and company - when people are having trouble logging into a site due to heavy traffic, that means the site has an extremely large number of visitors at that moment. This means the site was quite popular yesterday, glitches and all. 

With this kind of thinking, Fox News would probably think the following:

- "Traffic was bad because of the game? I guess not a lot of people went to the game then, huh? That's disappointing. It really is."

- "You had to wait in line all that time for the new item everyone is talking about? Must not be very popular then. Sales numbers are going to suck."

- "I didn't get in to see my doctor until an hour after it was scheduled! There's just no excuse for that kind of laziness! The place didn't seem very busy. I'm not sure why the room was so full of people, though. They were probably just there to read magazines and watch the soap operas that were playing."

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