Republican Governors won't expand Medicaid to cover uninsured poor people.

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17. I was thinking friends, family, border-creep and especially no TV/radio.

It's not immediate. If it were immediate...it wouldn't be a blunt-force of that length of time. The very things you're pointing to were things I knew and which if not for humanitarian costs work to our advantage.

I don't expect to have expanded Medicare everywhere until 2020 at the earliest...I expect that with the slow tidal change conservatism is squashed. Nobody talks about it but the GOP is on the verge of "structural loss" in Presidential races anyways...it's possible that if they lose 2012, they may not be viable in a Presidential race for another generation unless they toss-over much of their current agenda; the demographics are against them and trending further away.

The last thing I want is an ad campaign on radio or TV...they'll become inured to the reality; they need to see it and figure it out on their own without hearing it from Democratic leadership first. People, even conservatives, trust their lefty cousin and their moderate neighbor more than any politician. People in VA and WV know people in DC and MD. Kentuckians know Ohioans. Wisconsin borders Minnesota. We're capable of taking Florida and with that you border creep...you can't make this message in Alabama or Louisiana tomorrow.