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The idea that the GOP would be less dysfunctional with more power is baffling.
It's baffling to you that someone who voted for Romney/Ryan in 2012 wishes they had won that election? Deep.
The idea that the GOP would be less dysfunctional with more power is baffling.
It's baffling to you that someone who voted for Romney/Ryan in 2012 wishes they had won that election? Deep.
I figured hindsight would be 20/20. Guess not.
The same could be said for those who voted for President Obama.
Time to head out to the football tailgate!
At the very worst, he's been a check against the Republicans. Unless you ignore tons of evidence of economic growth, especially compared to the rest of the world, he's done a good job.
GOP preferred McConnell to Matt Bevin in KY Senate race. Bevin joined Huckabee and Cruz on the Kim Davis bandwagon and is now Governor. A LGBT rights initiative defeated in Houston because of transgender bathroom scare tactics. GOP won't drop their anti LGBT agenda anytime soon.
GOP preferred McConnell to Matt Bevin in KY Senate race. Bevin joined Huckabee and Cruz on the Kim Davis bandwagon and is now Governor. A LGBT rights initiative defeated in Houston because of transgender bathroom scare tactics. GOP won't drop their anti LGBT agenda anytime soon.
From what I've seen from Houston ads, they were roughly on the same level as the anti Prop 8 ads in CA in 2008. Marriage equality's now a non issue in CA. Houston and KY aren't CA and very few people know that they know any transgenders, but another protracted battle isn't helpful to the GOP. Needed to evolve on a number of issues post 2012 and still haven't done so yet.
"The people I talk to, health care wasn't even mentioned," said Gary Cornett, chairman of the Owsley County Republican Party. "In Southeast Kentucky, the social issues are important. We're a small, traditional, tight-knit community, and there are certain ways we do things."
The trend seemed to hold across the state. At Transylvania University, political scientist Andrea Malji said she has crunched state data and found a "99 percent confidence level" between the counties' Medicaid enrollment levels and their gubernatorial choices. The larger the Medicaid numbers, the more likely they were to back Bevin, she said. The lower the Medicaid numbers, the more likely they were to favor the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jack Conway.
Malji, who is from Pulaski County, where Bevin captured 72 percent of the vote, said she heard people back home denounce "Obamacare" while thousands rushed to sign up with Kynect. They didn't seem to realize that Kynect, Kentucky's response to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is the same thing as Obamacare, she said.
Excellent. The dems need a message of stronger together and not pit one group against the other.