In North Carolina, a hard-right shift hits a roadblock

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43. You're welcome. Just saw this in today's N&O...

NC Democrats: Too early to tell health care’s election impact

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Public Policy Polling, a Raleigh-based, Democrat-leaning firm, reported earlier this month that Hagan had lost her lead over potential Republican challengers and that 49 percent disapproved of her, up from 39 percent in September.

American for Prosperity, a tea-party-allied advocacy group funded by the conservative brothers David and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, spent $1.7 million on a TV ad campaign highlighting Hagan’s support for the health care law. “Who gets stuck with the bill? Families and small businesses,” it said. This month, AFP put out another ad, at $1.5 million, against the health care law and Hagan.

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William Hemphill, Democratic chairman in Bladen County, said people there were worried about how to survive, not about the health care law.

“We’ve got people who make less than $2,000 a month,” said Hemphill, who moved to the county, where his wife grew up, after he retired from the Postal Service in Baltimore. The top issue in Bladen County, Hemphill said, is jobs.

Many people there aren’t signing up for health insurance because they don’t understand the system, he said. “And the other ones figure, ‘Insurance? I can’t even pay my bills.’”

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/30/3419447/nc-democrats-too-early-to-tell.html#storylink=cpy