Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Obamacare affecting elections?
Its clear that each American have their own opinions about Obamacare. Some support it and some don't. But did Obamacare really affect an election? The rumors are true! The outcome of Obamacare made new Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe election go from an easy win to a barely won race. The ending result of the election was 48% of the vote to McAuliffe and 45% of the vote to the Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli. The outcome of this election was a shock to not only the candidates but to the public. The predictors were shocked when a double digit lead was blown after the voters who were opposed to Obamacare closed the gap by voting for Rep. Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli said in his concession speech."That message will go out to the entire country tonight". Talking about the clear message to everyone that not only is Obamacare affecting Americans it's now affecting Democrat's up for re-elections in the red-states. It's not clear that each election will be this close of an outcome to the rest of the states, but it's something that politicians should keep in mind for their upcoming races. Although the government shut down clearly put the most damage on Cuccinelli during the race, because of his political party, the most interesting thing is how the voters are FINALLY expressing their voice about Obamacare in this election. Even though McAuliffe did come out with the win, it was a set back to the newly elected Governor, in the sense that its clear his state voters are not happy with him supporting Obama and his health care plan. It will be interesting to see if Obamacare will affect more elections that are coming up.
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That truly is surprising how much the election was swayed, to go from a double digit projection to a measly 3%! after seeing this I would not be surprised if many more elections end this way.
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