Medicaid expansion keeps breaking through in red America. Next stop: North Carolina?

[RandySF]

Democrats recently notched big gubernatorial wins in deep red Louisiana and Kentucky, and they took full control of the Virginia state legislature — all of which were driven in no small part by bruising local debates over the Medicaid expansion.

Now Democrats are hoping that this momentum for the Medicaid expansion, combined with the growing popularity of the proposal even in Republican territory, could finally produce a breakthrough that they’ve long coveted: in still-reddish North Carolina.

And if that doesn’t happen, they believe they can make North Carolina Republicans pay a big price for it.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who faces North Carolina voters next year, is planning to make the Medicaid expansion a key feature of his reelection campaign, according to political consultant Morgan Jackson, who works for the governor.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/06/medicaid-expansion-keeps-breaking-through-red-america-next-stop-north-carolina/

[yellerpup]

1. We are hoping to get it passed in OK.

My husband carried a petition to get it on the ballot and we outdid ourselves! They needed 178K signatures to get it on the ballot and we got over 300,000! In a state of 4 million, this is a good percentage. We need it.