Very short version? Kentuckians hate Obamacare, want to keep Kynect, don’t want to cut back Medicaid… and yet, they just decisively elected a guy who only agrees with them on the first point. If not-going-to-be-Governor Jack Conway is reading this article, it’s probably with a bottle of bourbon in his fist.
Meanwhile, Matt Bevin? He’s probably reading it and shrugging. The people of Kentucky did elect him, after all. And it’s not like they didn’t know what he was going to be doing, right?
Interesting, but as expected, they asked the wrong questions. The question on the medicaid expansion should have listed the options as ‘keep things the same and cut other services when the Federal funds run out’, ‘keep things the same and raise taxes when the Federal funds run out’, and ‘cut benefits or the number of people served when the Federal funds run out’. I suspect the outcome might have been different in that case, though.
“And it’s not like they didn’t know what he was going to be doing, right?”
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Right? RIGHT?!
I seem to recall thee being a term – not “baka” or “derpy” – for polls that show a “have your cake and eat it too”, but don’t recall …
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Mew