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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy the terrible Obamacare decision in Texas could haunt Ben Sasse, cost the GOP the Senate in 2020
Blue Tuesday
2018/12/16 · 13:39
First things first: As the title of this diary states, the Texas courts decision to strike down Obamacare was a lawless act of partisan idiocy, and will hopefully be reversed upon appeal. There is no silver lining in taking healthcare away from 20 million people.
That all said, this is the hand weve been dealt, and fortunately, we know how to play it now.
As Bloomberg reports today, the case is likely to stretch into 2020, and possibly beyond if it reaches the Supreme Court. That means that it will be the defining issue of the 2020 elections (well, beyond Trumps brain rot and treason), and it could mean a lot of trouble for the GOP. Healthcare was the top issue in 2018 and voters broke overwhelmingly for Democrats on the subject, helping them take back the House and, notably, expand Medicaid even in three red states.
One of those states was Nebraska, where voters enacted Medicaid expansion via ballot initiative despite years of the GOP-controlled state legislatures refusal to do so. Once implemented, an additional 90,000 people in Nebraska will have healthcare. Thats not a benefit theyre going to want to give up. And that puts Sen. Ben Sasse, who is up for re-election in 2020, in a perilous situation.
FULL story: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/16/1819496/-The-Obamacare-decision-in-Texas-is-a-disgrace-but-it-could-help-us-take-out-Sen-Ben-Sasse-in-2020?utm_campaign=trending
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Why the terrible Obamacare decision in Texas could haunt Ben Sasse, cost the GOP the Senate in 2020 (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Dec 2018
OP
Good. This idiotic issue deserves to be hung around the necks of all of them...nt
SWBTATTReg
Dec 2018
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SWBTATTReg
(22,100 posts)1. Good. This idiotic issue deserves to be hung around the necks of all of them...nt
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,309 posts)2. actblue link after article
There's an actblue link at the end of the article, to donate to Progressives Everywhere for senate candidates in Nebraska, Maine and Colorado.
irisblue
(32,954 posts)3. Thanks for this OS. Sasse managed to skate on so much stuff
TheFarseer
(9,319 posts)4. We Nebraskans like
That hes an independent conservative voice. And we cant see though his bull crap to realize that 90% of what he does is so rich people and corporations can get a tax cut and the other 10% is to increase their profits in some other way.