Has anyone of any prominence been stumping for Deborah Ross in North Carolina?
What prominent Democrats would most resonate with independent North Carolinians?
It looks like Clinton will win the state. Should it be so hard to get most of the people who vote for Clinton to also vote for Ross?
It looks like Cortez Masto and McGinty finally have a pretty good grip on Nevada and Pennsylvania. And god bless Kander in Missouri for learning to assemble a gun blindfolded. North Carolina looks to be the next best possible get.
The photo, taken of Murphy and his then-girlfriend when he was in college, does not show anyone being “groped.” His hand is on her upper arm with his fingers extended out above (not on) her breast and even with the pixelated photo, it is clear that she is smiling.
If that is Rubio’s “evidence” that Murphy “gropes” women, it shows only that Rubio is willing to stoop to Trump-like lies to make his claims and that folks who believe Rubio tend to swallow a bowl full of gullible each morning.
Actually, in the time since I made the previous post, Silver has dropped the chances for both Cortez Masto in Nevada and McGinty in Pennsylvania. Both states are still shaded Blue but they’re practically toss-ups in the Polls Plus model.
Funny enough, McGinty dropped in Pennsylvania the day after I saw a story about Clinton stumping for her and actually calling out her opponent- apparently, the first time Clinton has explicitly gone after a down ticket Republican. The Clinton appearance and Silver’s downgrading of McGinty’s chances were too close together for there to have been causation, but I still got a chuckle (a dark unhappy chuckle) out of seeing the story of Clinton stumping for McGinty then so immediately seeing 538 drop McGinty’s chances.
This is historical revisionism and never happened.
For one thing, Obama was not really involved in the ACA negotiations, and left it to congressional Democratic leaders. For another, the congressional Democrats were the ones who decided to jettison the gang-of-six negotiations, under pressure from their left wing. And after that point, the focus of negotiations and concessions was not on getting any Republican support, but on getting something that could be supported by moderate Democrats (e.g. Lieberman, Nelson).
[The other big revisionist argument so favored by ACA proponents is that the ACA was a Republican idea, opposed by Republicans for political reasons. This is also bogus. The kernel of truth here is that key elements were floated by some conservative think tank at some point. But while it attracted a bit of support as a potential better alternative to “Hillary-care” it was never supported by a majority of the Republican leadership (or anything close to it) and was not something that Republicans pushed for when they had the chance and before Obama proposed it.]
The original plan was developed by Newt Gingrich, and was then implemented on a state level by Obama’s Presidential opponent. How much more “Republican leadership” do you need to get?
Leaving aside your incorrect assertion about Gingrich (who supported an individual mandate but didn’t “develop” anything), I said above that it was not supported by a majority of the leadership and this is true. And even at that, it was supported as a more palatable alternative to Hillary-care.
Similar applies to Romney, who was governor of one of the most liberal states in the nation.
You’re right, it was not pushed for or developed by congressional Republicans. It couldn’t have been; tax cuts are the only thing they’ve pushed for in the last 20 years.
All we had to do was come up with a health plan that reduced costs, increased access, and provided for our insurance companies in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
This did happen, true. But after how many months of trying to dicker with Republicans? You gotta give up sometime, rather than beat your head against the same wall indefinitely.
…it was implemented in its essential elements - no consideration of pre-existing conditions, individual mandate, subsidies for those who couldn’t afford full freight - by Gov. Romney in Massachusetts. (A very unusual think tank, one with 11 more electoral votes than any other think tank has.)
He didn’t delegate. His attitude was basically that he needed to get something passed and left everything else to the Democrats in Congress, much to their frustration.
That’s not what happened. As mentioned previously, left wingers in Congress were unhappy with the concessions made in those negotiation, and jettisoned the Baucus committee work and began elsewhere.
So sweet of you. But I addressed this earlier, and don’t feel the need to add anything.
Isn’t she more suited for SEC head? She doesn’t have the background for Treasury. She’s a law professor, not an economics professor. That would be like putting an Arabian horses expert in charge of FEMA.
