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Rafael Cruz did not filibuster, his son, Senator Ted Cruz was the one holding the Senate floor. I don't understand how you can confuse the two unless you think all Latinos look alike.
To educate the house members on the bill they didn't read to convince them to stand by the CAR they passed that provided continued funding of pre-existing obligations.
So this "Ted Cruz" you speak of, isn't his first name Rafael? So calling him Rafael Cruz would be accurate.
No Republican voted for the ACA, so why should they fund it?
That is a bit of a red herring. YES, the ACA was not favorable but why total defund it? What purpose does defunding do it rather than say trying to work with Democrats to actually fix the aspects of the law that wasn't that good. That's the issue. Had the Republicans truly put up an idea to confront an adaptation of a Heritage Foundation proposal to the idea of Universal Healthcare in America.
No one? Few? The polling through those 2 election seasons showed them leading.
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Reagan was 30 points behind Carter 9 months before the election, he was considered far too conservative to actually win, and the moderate establishment figures in the GOP really wanted HW.
Reagan was still 8 points behind on October 26, ended up beating Carter by 10% in the popular vote and got more than 90% of the electoral college votes.
As far as the "demographic problem" of the Republicans, these things change as well. Before the late 60's, many ethnic groups like Poles, Italians, Slovaks, etc., voted overwhelmingly and solidly for the Democrats. As they moved up economically, their votes became more in tune with the general "white vote", and I don't think they are even polled any more.
If hispanic voters and blacks actually do move up economically like other ethnic groups have, you can expect their loyalty to the welfare state above all other things to wane as well. Ironically, it isn't to the Democrats' advantage to have their largest supporters succeed economically.
At this point, Reagan was the fringe far right wacko, that wasn't going to come close in the GOP primaries.
That has not been the case, for Ted Cruz. He told us what we wanted to hear and then backed it up, by doing everything in his power to achieve that. It wasn't a bunch of empty campaign promises. The guy is actually doing what I elected him to do in the Senate. I expect him to do the same as President.
Restore the Constitution.
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