Why haven't the DSCC and DCCC done ads featuring people who gained from the ACA?

[Ken Burch]

There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people out there for whom the ACA is a life saver.

The program is working.

Using that fact could only have helped.

And nobody who wants healthcare repealed was going to vote for us anyway.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Probably same reason that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz thinks locking up cancer grannies for pot is a

good idea.

Probably the same reason that the only actual position on "issues" that Hillary Clinton, who we are supposed to accept as our presumptive 2016 nominee, has actually taken is "The Bible is the mostest bestest book ever!"

In short, because out of touch conventional wisdom beltway dipwads are running the show, and have put out this idea that all-powerful "Values Voters" are mad about "Obamacare".

[elleng]

2. Because I haven't sent them any $.

or which came first???

[Caretha]

3. Because they are stupid?

Naa they aren't stupid, they definitely know what they are doing

....it's because they are as duplicitous as the Republicans and we wouldn't want to hobble the other team (wink - wink).

I'm to the point where I believe they are all one and the same, except for possibly about 75 house & senate members....so what can you do?

[Phlem]

4. It sure does seem like

coordinated theater doesn't it.

[Phlem]

5. They're to busy trying to get our last dime

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and it would destroy coordinated theater.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Maybe these Dems who are losing in red states asked 'em not to...

It's apparent people like Grimes don't want to talk about the ACA in any way - even if it's explaining its values and benefits.

[rhett o rick]

16. Maybe the Dems who are losing wouldn't be losing if they spoke up for Democratic values

instead of apologizing for being Democrats.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. I agree with you there...

I think it's stupid to run against the ACA. Especially Grimes. She's done a poor job articulating to the people there that Kentucky's version will GO AWAY IF MITCH GETS HIS WAY.

[rhett o rick]

20. And I agree with you there.

[Autumn]

7. That's what has bugged the shit out of me this election.

It has helped so may people and not one word.

[Caretha]

8. No

Not one damn WORD.

I have 2 employees...young I might add, that had no access to health care until ACA. They would say sound bites from the Republicans about the ACA until I pointed out they would not have been able to take their young children nor themselves to the doctor recently and gotten examined, diagnosed and then prescriptions.

They now are very much aware, but have a long way to go and need to be reminded. Hell...they are even starting to sound like Democrats. But get them to vote...hell NO. Why should they when our party doesn't even remind them.

[Warpy]

9. sheer stupidity, IMO

by a bunch of inside the beltway wonks who wouldn't be able to sell beer to alcoholics.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

10. As someone who lives in NC, that's what I want to know.

Educate voters as to how we're losing out on jobs. And how residents, especially in rural areas, are suffering because of lack of coverage, and by healthcare systems shutting their doors. And how billions of our tax dollars are going to "rich" states that have expanded Medicaid. When it's convenient, Rs are quick to compare us to neighboring states as far as tax rates; Dem groups could have compared NC's ACA losses to Kentucky's ACA successes.

Even Tillis (Kay Hagan's Republican opponent) has hinted at expansion, along with Republican governor McCrory. Of course, that could be nothing but a bullshit effort to get moderate Dems and Independents to vote for Tillis, like so many did for McCrory in 2012.

[Ken Burch]

11. BTW, IN NC, has the party done anything at all to connect with the "Moral Mondays" energy?

Or have they let the "triangulation uber alles" crowd scare them out of doing that?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

12. I'm feeling ZERO energy from the Democratic Party.

Moral Mondays, whut's that?! I have to laugh, though... Kim Hanchette (D) is running for an NC House seat, and her Republican opponent didn't miss a beat in portraying her as a stoned, unwashed radical arrested at one of the protests.

Right now I'm listening to an NRA ad attacking Bloomberg and Hagan.

Ooh, now a spelling bee ad attacking Hagan's vote for the ACA (Hagan is spelled O-b-a-m-a... hilarious!).

Tuesday cannot get here fast enough.

[JI7]

13. because these are mostly red states who are distancing themselves from Obama

[brooklynite]

15. Let's remember an important point...MOST people didn't benefit from ACA

They already had insurance from their employer and were generally happy with it.

[dsc]

17. In states that didn't expand Medicaid

what I don't understand is why we don't run ads tallying up the excess deaths.

[WinkyDink]

19. Because helping the least of our brethren gets no votes.