If Rural Voters Were Angry Before, Wait Until The GOP Repeals Obamacare

[workinclasszero]

If Rural Voters Were Angry Before, Wait Until The GOP Repeals Obamacare
They’ll pay more and their hospitals will suffer under the GOP replacement for Obamacare, experts say. Democrats are ready to pounce.
By Michael McAuliff , Laura Barron-Lopez 03/10/2017 07:39 am ET

WASHINGTON ― If President Donald Trump and Republicans make good on their promise to angry rural voters to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, those voters may wind up a lot angrier.

And it won’t be good for their health or for the electoral prospects of the GOP.

Democrats, at least, certainly think so, and are looking at both fresh polling data and history for evidence that the GOP’s repeal and replace effort will also repeal Republican control of Congress.

For Jill Hanauer, who runs the progressive election research and strategy outfit Project New America, the landscape is starting to remind her of Colorado in 2004, when Democrats did especially well, running in part on a health care message.

“The way we really won in Republican-leaning districts of the state legislature was talking about the specifics of health care ― particularly breast cancer and prostate cancer and other cancer screenings and other prevention,” Hanauer recently told The Huffington Post. “Thirteen years later, those same issues are, I believe, going to tear this party potentially apart if they don’t smell the coffee.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rural-voters-obamacare-repeal_us_58c1d0b9e4b0d1078ca56b0e?vnrm4cxzykap833di&

[dalton99a]

1. Their GOP congressmen will convene 'telephone town halls' - to hang up on them

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. It's Friday in Dumbfuckistan.

Isn’t it great? Trumpy will kick his base in the genitals, over and over. He’s doing that right now! And his base? (Oh, our President is being strong and arrogant, just like us.) For them it’s all rhetoric. It means nothing. It means nothing because it isn’t law. His base doesn’t draw the CONNECTION between rhetoric and the law, at their own, and our, peril. So they are stunningly supportive of what will end up being their own increased suffering and early death. Isn’t that simply amazing?

[workinclasszero]

6. They still love Trump because...fuk libs and the "others"

When Dump cancels their health insurance and they can't replace it, they will howl!

And lets see how they like their small rural hospitals shutting down because Trumpcare makes them non-viable and they have to drive 100 or more miles to the nearest one.

[Kimchijeon]

13. I don't think most of them will connect the dots

They really aren't too big on critical thinking.

[gordianot]

3. Education and Agriculture are also about to be dismantled by the Federal Government.

Do not underestimate what public schools bring into rural communities. Everything in Agriculture (with the exception of tobacco) is potentially on the shopping block. Of course the way back machine will revive the coal industry.

[Initech]

4. Rural voters will never be satisfied with anything that is done by our government.

I think we need to realize this, and I think that we need to tell them to shut the fuck up. The sooner we do that, the better off we'll be.

[exboyfil]

5. The US Postal Service has been a whipping boy for a while

I wonder if rural voters realize what a subsidy they receive in delivering the mail to them.

[wcast]

7. They will eat it up and beg for more.

It won't be Trump's fault for them but the government who is at fault. The disconnect is huge.

[workinclasszero]

8. Who will they believe?

Fox news/Rush Limpballs or....their loved one dying like a dog in the street for lack of healthcare?

[wcast]

11. You are right

They only change their beliefs when it affects them. The other point in this is they believe they deserve it. It's the others that don't.

[workinclasszero]

15. Yup its all "fake news" to them

Until it hits them personally.

The republican kabuki theater is almost over and these working class fools who voted Trump/republican are going to get a red-hot poker shoved up their ass for their stupidity.

Courtesy of the Freedom Caucus, Adolf Trump and Ayn Rand worshiper Ryan.

[Kimchijeon]

14. Well when Rush blames it on "liberals" somehow

they will take that direction. I realize some might have a scattering of braincells but there are just so many of them willing to believe in what they want, contrary to reality.

(sorry didn't mean to come off as a negative nancy)

[ornotna]

16. Yep

[itcfish]

9. Why were they angry

Under Pres. Obama? Did he take away their guns? Their farm subsidies? Their health care? No! they were just angry because Obama is black. There is no other reason. If someone knows the reason, please enlighten me.

[workinclasszero]

10. You are right

The scary black man in the white house was the only reason for the deplorable Trump voters, period.

IMO

[wcast]

12. +1000

Although others on this board will argue that has nothing to do with it.