The GOP Health Plan -or-If You're Not Wealthy You're Screwed

[rubato]

• Krugman is spot-on as he usually is. And I have said this in this forum before as well.

Actually, it bothers me quite a bit that I often see Krugman (and you too, of course) doing to Republicans, conservatives, and "the right" something that I (in another thread) just complimented Andrew Sullivan for NOT doing to liberals/leftists/progressives ... " .

49/52 nds then I should have said "94% of Republican Senators".
217/238 nds or 91% of Republican Congressmen and Women.
and the 9/10 Republican voters who voted for Trump (who ran on the issue of deleting the ACA)

Those are close enough to 100% for the generalization not to offend the truth for a reasonable person. But to be excruciatingly correct he should have said "nearly all" or "almost 100 percent" of conservatives, Republicans &c.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

If we had to have a Republican, why couldn't we have had this guy?

Opinion

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
John Kasich: The Way Forward on Health Care
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The GOP voters would never have him. After more than a decade of being whipped into frenzied terror with lies about immigrants they would never accept someone who did not parrot that delusion.


Yrs,
Rubato

Oh dear...

Wrong again Your Royal Wrongness...

Poll: New Hampshire primary voters likely to pick John Kasich over President Trump

Republican voters in New Hampshire are more likely to pick Ohio Gov. John Kasich over President Trump if the two were facing each other today in the 2020 presidential primary, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

The New Hampshire Poll, conducted by the American Research Group, found that 52% of likely GOP primary voters would pick Kasich, while 40% would choose Trump. Another 8% were undecided.

Likely voters also favored Kasich (41%) over Vice President Pence (27%) if the primary was today, with 32% saying they were undecided.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 548108001/

[rubato]

Kasich was washed out early in the primary. You appear to have forgotten. And he was washed out by Republicans who liked Trumps xenophobic anti-foreigners policy.





yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

Kasich was washed out early in the primary. You appear to have forgotten.

Aw geez...

Sometimes you just make it too easy....

Donald Trump 100,406 35.3%
John Kasich 44,909 15.8%
Ted Cruz 33,189 11.7%
Jeb Bush 31,310 11%
Marco Rubio 30,032 10.6%
Chris Christie 21,069 7.4%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hamps ... mary,_2016

I know you're not good at maths rube, so I'll explain it for you...

The reason Kasich (or Bush, or Rubio, or even Christie for that matter) wasn't able to bring down Trump, was because there were too many serious, well financed, candidates running in "the establishment lane"...

Just a couple of weeks before, the Right-Wing candidate Cruz defeated Trump in the Iowa Caucuses, and if Kasich had had an open shot in New Hampshire, he'd have beaten Trump there...

With back-to-back defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump would have been on the ropes going into South Carolina...

And even after everything was said and done, (including the primaries held after he clinched the nomination; before that he was at 36% of the GOP primary and caucus vote) Trump only received 43% of the total primary and caucus vote...