The Obamacare Hail Mary That Could Save The Senate For Democrats

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16. I'm really not talking about perfection, I'm talking about what is going to be hard

to grow it into a significant issue.

Over 90% of Wisconsinites aren't affected by the decision to not expand medicaid.

That makes it a limited issue.

Leveraging such a limited issue into something big depends upon stirring voter sentiment about something that doesn't directly affect them. The issue must be turned into something that produces passion:clear images of right vs wrong or what's fair vs what isn't...

Currently, most WI voters seem to think what's unfair is that they personally pay taxes that get spent on others...and the others are being stereotyped as "lazy people of color in urban areas" who make up a large fraction of the people who need the medicaid expansion. Denying things to 'those people' is the default sentiment in the legislature.

Moving that sentiment just to reach neutral is a very large lift. Corpo-dems usually do the most doable in their 'pragmatic' way. And there is little doubt that Burke is a Harvard trained, DC honed corpo-dem.