I have NO doubt that is 100% true.
I think Republican strategists have significantly overrated the importance of ObamaCare in the 2014 election.
The story in California is the same story in almost every other state:
Roughly 80% of applicants sign up for free Medicaid or subsidized health plans.
Why, exactly, would any of those people vote against the Democrat Party?
Today, in Washington State, I was talking to a massage therapist (a lesbian I discovered) who said that for the first time in her life she now has health care.
I wondered what it’s costing me. I’d say she was early 40s. Can’t imagine she couldn’t have afforded some sort of plan before.
They are already Dem voters. The real question is how many uninsured remain in CA? And how many of those who enrolled under Obamacare had their previous insurance cancelled.
The Medicaid figures are always suspect since people are dropping off and signing up for Medicaid all the time. And how many were added due to the expansion of Medicaid?