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Bobby jindal. in the news this week coming up with his sort of alternative plan to obamacare but also bobby jindal refuse to go do the medicaid expansion in louisiana. i wonder that aspect of it, has he paid a political price for that or is this the fact he s standing up to the obama administration, does that give him the political cover he needs? how is that playing down there? it s probably a little bit of both. we have seen the governor have declining poll numbers. at the same time it doesn t mean there has been an upswing for president barack obama. you re right that he has refused the medicaid expansion which would bring in about 242,000 louisianans and get them health care. his argument to not expand medicaid has not been persuasive at all in large part because it s so shockingly similar to proposals he has made himself. ....
The key races louisiana and kentucky and i think the democratic candidate is playing the issue differently. i wanted to get at what s behind the contrast. al in louisville, i ll start with you, talk about allison grimes running against mitch mcconnell. this is i have an element here that sums it up. we know mitch mcconnell is running strongly against the affordable care act and it shows a plurality of kentucky voters despite the success the governor has had in implementing it they still want to repeal it. here is this is an article, an npr story at louisville looking at allison grimes position. does she plan to embrace the affordable care act over the next eight months? the not likely. it s a compliment to governor bashir in the state when asked, the law isn t perfect and does need to be fixed. something democrats and republicans should put together and the affordable care act. there seems to be such a disconnect here. arguably it is working better in ....
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A great job of framing it as kentucky-based program that sets up health care while obamacare is the bad thing over there and he doesn t want to talk about. that s smart. one of the democrats mentioned we have beshear here to, again, make the point this is not obamacare. we have beshear care and that s different somehow. a good approach. it just tests the sort of visceral reaction people in the red state like kentucky versus can they separate the policy from that. i want to look at the opposite of this now. in louisiana where you have a democratic senate candidate, incumbent candidate, mary landrieu, running for re-election. this is a red state. this is a state that voted for mitt romney. it s not a state democrats are expecting to be winning anytime soon. mary be landrieu in running for r reehad lex, jarvis, is touting support for the affordable care act. she launched a web petition, also apparently this week telling bobby jindal, the ....
Orleans to be elected. the electorate in louisiana is a very racially polarized electorate when you get into the deep south. it gets into when you get to the question of opinion on obamacare it s polarized along racial lines, too. i want to bring victoria in and have a few more interesting things on this contrast of two very different states, the same issue playing out. because when you buy the new samsung galaxy s5 on verizon, you get a second samsung galaxy s5 for free. so, who ya gonna give it to? maybe your brother could use it to finally meet a girl. your mom, but isn t your love reward enough? its not. maybe your roommate, i mean you pretty much share everything else. hey. your girlfriend. just do not tell her it was free. whoever you choose, you ll both get the best devices on the number 1 ranked network. for best results, use verizon. thit s not the limit yoursh hard earned cash back card . it s not the confused by rotating categories card. ....