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These are also states where a change of governor would mean a better quality of life for people (as opposed to corporations). But why should people vote for their own well-being when they can vote for ideological purity?
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Donāt forget itās also time for South Carolina to dump that bitch Nikki Haley.
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āā¦it doesnāt look like any legislatures are going to flipā¦ā
Gerrymandering, the Republican form of democracy.
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Itās sad that GOPers do not want health care for everyone. Talk about āDeath Panelsāā¦the whole party is a death panel (yes, Sarah there is a death panel and youāre on it).
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As a Georgian, I have to tell you that if we go purple, it will be not just because of the ACA, but also because of Republican mismanagement of the business climate here.
Georgia is hovering ~8% unemployment right now and the rank and file are beginning to suspect that, you know, maybe austerity doesnāt lead to job growth after all.
Gov Deal Ā® is kinda sorta getting french pressed.
In the end, it will all boil down to the ground game. The numbers are there for a switch, but can they be mobilized? GOTV.
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Paul Ryan: āThis to us is something that weāre not going to give up on, because weāre not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.ā
Later: āIā¦Iā¦I made an unfortunate slip.ā
Nope! Itās the only truthful thing Ryan has said in his entire political career, perhaps his life.
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GOP Losses In 5 States Could Bring Coverage To A Million Uninsured
Canāt let that happen - That would turn America into an Islamo-fascist nanny-state just like Nazi Germany.
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What the hell is wrong with people that Scott Walker is polling ahead? And Rick Scott?
And Mitch McConnell pulling away with a comfortable lead?
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Iād hope to add the deep red state of Nebraska to that list of 5.
As the June 19, 2014 PPP headline states:
āNebraska Governorās Race Competitiveā
Ricketts Ā® is polling at only 42% to 38% for Hassebrook (D)
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/chuck-hassebrook/
And yes, thatās āRickettsā. as in the wholly inept son of AmeriTrade founder and Cubs owner Joe Ricketts.
A Koch doppelganger who has dedicated his Bahamian cloistered billions to attacking Americaās first black President and advancing the Randian desires of the .001%.
āMeet Joe Ricketts: Billionaire Has Millions To Smear Obamaā
http://bit.ly/1wagx32
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āOur taxpayer dollars are just going to other statesā is one of the best, easily understood talking points anybody could make. Letās hope it registers with Kansans.
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It isnāt just the million voter membership drive here, people with resources who have never been concerned for their own benefits, but who look on in horror at the unnecessary suffering of their less fortunate fellows, will be moved to join this drive.
The trickle-up effect should be profound, it is hard to imagine anyone so isolated from reality that they donāt know someone who is helped by the ACA and subsequently, Medicaid.
These are the million who ARENāT being covered by Medicaid, consider the voting block that could be represented by a grateful 20 Million who have been covered for the first time in years, since the ACA gave them access to the healthcare system that flourishes outside of the emergency room.
Hard to predict how that vote will turn out in the mid terms, but there does seem to be a pent-up populist magma blob thatās looking for a place to vent, this election might be a surprise in more than a few ways and places.
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Republicans lose. You win.
Add Alaska to the list.
In the governorās race, the Democrat dropped out, joining the ticket, of independent Bill Walker, against Republican Sean Parnell. Walker says he will accept the ACA Medicaid expansion on day one.
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JEP07,
Wholeheartedly agree with both your analysis and sentiment.
Although, Iāve held out similar hopes in many prior elections only to be sorely disappointed.
My enthusiasm is now tempered (and craven GOP hopes buoyed) by he words of H.L. Mencken:
āDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I knowāand I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help meāhas ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.ā
September 19, 1926
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the amygdala is a terrible thing to wasteā¦
āThere are also growing examples, like Wyoming, of solidly conservative states coming around under pressure from business interest groups, like hospitals.ā
That is the only way Kansas will inevitably make the change, the 78,000 are just the riff-raff they were hoping would move somewhere else.
It wonāt be for āThe Peopleā that they will eventually fold in this no-winners game of cards.
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I consider it more that voluntary democracy inherently represents collective wisdom of individual intellect, we are the sum of our wisdom, and that everyone should be encouraged to participate to make that sum represent what we ambiguously refer to as āThe People.ā Something of a disambiguation, then. .
Just taking part educates people about the process, and the more we know the less we suffer.
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Walker, Scott, Cantor, none of these people play by the rules. Why should we?
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