This board is absolutely unreadable and it's not even an election year.

[moriah]

153. I imagine you are a Southerner.

I can answer the question -- I was upset that Blanche Lincoln was primaried with out-of-state funds and lost her seat, because at the time 5 of the 6 people we sent to Washington were Democrats, and her Republican opponent was the lone Republican already with name recognition because he was a Rep. I knew she was going to have a hard enough time, and wanted us to at least have her for critical votes.

But it was her critical vote recalcitrance re: the ACA that led to her being primaried.

We barely got the Medicaid expansion here in Arkansas, and it was done with Arkansas bidding out the healthy poor to be covered by Marketplace plans, and those who didn't meet underwriting standards were placed on regular Medicaid. She absolutely refused a public option knowing that Arkansas wasn't ready for it, and the "Private Option" was barely something we could get through despite it being a major giveaway to insurance companies.

I wanted a public option but I absolutely voted for Blanche in 2010. I knew all too well what getting that asshat Boozman in the Senate would bring. All of our Senators and Representatives are red now.