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>> reporter: and make no mistake, health care was a major issue in this campaign. riser, the establishment choice, hammered mcallister as a squish on obama care. >> on his campaign website, vance says he'll fight to repeal obama care, but just recently, vance mcallister told reporters that obama care is constitutional and "we're past the point of repealing it." tired of politician double talk? vote neil riser. he'll shoot you straight. >> and in the last debate before the election, mcallister dropped the following bombshell when asked about obama care's medicaid expansion. >> i think we have t...

Saturday, september 16th and vote for my good buddy, vance mcallister. >> but it wasn't just the full-bearded endorsement that separated mcallister from his opponent. he was also a truth-teller when it comes to repealing obama care. >> i'm not going to stand here and lie to you and tell you i can repeal it, because i want your votes. >> reporter: and make no mistake, health care was a major issue in this campaign. riser, the establishment choice, hammered mcallister as a squish on obama care. >> on his campaign website, vance says he'll fight to repeal obama care, but just recently, vance mcal...

We're going to have to amend it to make it better. and he was rewarded. this is -- i tell you, this and what happened with bradley byrne in alabama one, these are house races in those gerrymandered house districts that we talk about all the time. >> there was another added element in addition to the pragmatism, which i think you're right about. the winner of this primary came from outside the system. he ran against a guy in the system. a state senator in the legislature. i think you're going to see a lot of people from outside the system coming in as outsiders saying, let's make something work...

In -- you know, kind of like a follow up to what happened in the alabama one. where you had a business person who's sane and rational winning. >> there's always hope. a republican who took down the tea party backed front-runner by emphasizing a populist and pragmatic approach to government that he says is not based solely on ideology. political newcomer vance mcallister easily beat state senator neil riser in saturday's runoff for the fifth congressional district. riser was backed by tea party groups and the establishment including eric cantor opposed efforts to raise the debt ceiling unless s...

The strategy of thinking they can run against obama care, even now when people are trying to suggest that we are at gloom and doom for president obama, seems a little bit of a far reach. >> well, i don't know. i mean, i think it might be an equally far reach to say that this special election, i think, was in congressional district five in louisiana, has broader implications for the way that republicans -- i think what is telling about this race, though, is that you did have in mcallister someone who, i think, tapped into populism better than his opponent did, neil riser. so, yeah, he was the c...