'Every. Single. One.': Ocasio-Cortez Notes Every Democrat Who Backed Medicare for All Won Reelection
Highlighting an interesting—and to many, instructive—electoral trend that others have spotted in the days since 2020 voting ended earlier this week, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday—just as jubilation spread nationwide among Democrats and progressives upon news that Joe Biden will be the next U.S. President—pointed out that every single congressional member this year who ran for reelection while supporting Medicare for All won (or was on their way to winning) their respective race.
Link to tweet
The tweet emerged as many across the corporate media landscape, including pundits and former high-level Democratic officials like Rahm Emanuel, unabashedly pushed a narrative that progressives calling for policies like a single-payer universal healthcare system or the Green New Deal are somehow a hindrance to electoral success. Ocasio-Cortez was not standing for it:
As Common Dreams reported Friday, while corporate-friendly Democrats have continued to go to bat for the for-profit healthcare system that lavishes billions of dollars each year on insurance companies, for-profit hospitals, and pharmaceutical giants, a new poll this week—put out by Fox News no less—shows that 72% of all U.S. voters would prefer a "government-run healthcare plan." And the poll is far from an outlier, with numerous surveys in recent years showing this trend.
"Polls consistently show a majority of the U.S. electorate [is] considerably to the left of both party leaderships... on issue after issue—the environment, electoral reform, [and] Medicare for All," said Jacobin's Luke Savage in response that poll.
Despite what "corporate front groups and lazy pundits always say," tweeted journalist Andrew Perez, "people absolutely do not like their private health insurance."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/07/every-single-one-ocasio-cortez-notes-every-democrat-who-backed-medicare-all-won
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I don’t.
Votes Across the Country.
We're not talking about just Blue Districts here.
https://joebiden.com/healthcare/
The Republican party is the party of neo-nazi white supremacist domestic terrorists. They elected Trump, and they fought tooth and nail to re-elect him. It is Republicans who gave us this nasty SCOTUS. They fight everywhere to keep people from voting. They are currently planning to go to court in a desperate attempt to overturn the election. It's not the kleft that is doing this, it is fascist Republicans.
Kasich was a fill in host for Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, and had his own Fox News show, Heartland With John Kasich, for six years.
While Governor of Ohio he successfully fought to suppress the vote in Ohio:
Kasich signs voting bills that end Golden Week and limit distribution of absentee ballots
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. John Kasich signed into law Friday changes to Ohio’s election rules on early voting and handling of absentee ballot applications.
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The bills, hotly contested by Democrats, cleared the General Assembly Wednesday after heated debate. Democrats said the changes will make it harder for people to vote and lead to more absentee ballots being discarded due technical errors. They warned that the people most affected by the changes are those in urban populations, populations that tend to vote Democratic.
Rep. Chris Redfern of Catawba Island, who also is chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, promised his party would sue to stop the bills from taking effect.
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The Ohio Association of Election Officials recommended the five-day period be scrapped to create a clean break between when voters can register and when they can cast ballots. Democrats and voter rights advocates said reducing early voting days would disenfranchise voters and lead to longer lines at the polls. They also questioned the urgency and motive behind passing the bills.
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2014/02/kasich_signs_voting_bills_that.html
Isn't that just special?
Any Democrats who are Republican sympathizers haven't cleared all the brainwash, and desperately need therapy to get the Fox News and Limbaugh completely out of their heads.
Yes, there may be a handful of Republicans who sort of don't like Trump, but most of them probably voted for him in 2016 and 2020 anyway. Democrats must unite the entire left, or Trump, or another Hitler wannabe just like him, or far worse, will unite the the Republican Cult of Trump Worshipers, and Trump Republican fascism will be back, with a vengeance.
he calls it that on his site talking about Health Care!
https://joebiden.com/healthcare/
He's not shy about calling it that, either!
extremely low premiums and co-pays. They just borrowed the Medicare name as a marketing ploy.
In terms of cost, the current system (with the ACA) is estimated to have a total cost for all healthcare and pharma expenditure over the next 10 years of around 55-60 trillion, which is less than all studies so far of what MFA would cost. Now that the ACA is likely going to binned, that 55-60 trillion figure will more than likely increase.
Now, I am NOT saying that MFA will pass anytime in the next 15, 20 years, if ever. In fact I was one of the few who said that the Public Option would not pass, even if we had a 52-48, 53-47, or even a 54-46 Senate MAJORITY (which of course we will not, it will take the election of the century to just draw even in the two runoffs in GA). Too many forces aligned against it. Trillions upon trillion in profits at stake over the next 20 years.
and commondreams 
but who is she talking about? The image presented here apparently includes the swing states of NY and MA or deep blue districts that were won with something like 30 to 60% blowouts. It's dishonest to argue that a district is somehow harder to win just because it's in a swing state.
Secondly, the goal to strive for should be universal healthcare and there are more than one way to get there.
Finally, every single Democrat running on Medicare for all lost in the Democratic primaries. Every.
Single. One. That is the most left-leaning demographic they could ever hope for if they want to win the Presidency.
