If you’ve been tracking the news on signups under the Affordable Care Act – which is easy thanks to Charles Gaba’s invaluable site – you already knew that the program was making a pretty good recovery from the botched start. Now, however, it’s official: as of the end of January signups were only about a million behind their projected track as of last spring, which means that as of March 31 the total is likely to be 6-point-something million rather than the projected 7 million. In other words, basically OK.

But here’s the thing: every online article I’ve seen about the latest numbers is followed by a huge number of vitriolic comments insisting that it isn’t true, that Obamacare is a total disaster. Some commenters declare that all the numbers are lies; others, getting their take from right-wing bloggers, say that all of those who have signed up but not yet paid their first premium – ahem, 47 percent of the total – will never pay and are fake enrollees. And so on.

You can’t help but notice the resemblance to the “unskewing” fever of the final weeks of the 2012 election, when everyone on the right knew, just knew, that the polls showing a clear Obama edge were biased and wrong, and that if you reworked the numbers somehow they pointed to a Romney triumph.

Now, you might ask, how do I know that the Obamacare unskewers are wrong? Actually, I don’t know that for sure – but it’s very unlikely that they’re right. For one thing, they are more or less the same as the poll unskewers – people who know nothing about the subject, but know what they want to believe. For another, CBO – which has a reputation to defend – thinks it’s going to be OK. Finally, the insurers, who have real money on the line, seem fairly calm, which wouldn’t be the case if they saw really terrible enrollment.

Two things are interesting about all of this. First, the right has evidently learned nothing from the unskewing debacle. And second, right-wingers are totally vested in the idea of an Obamacare collapse. They have no plan B, and their only answer to growing evidence that it’s not going to happen is furious denial.