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"People are hungry for it." Kentucky Governor says that Mitch McConnell's battle against Obamacare, does not reflect his constituents feelings toward it.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

It was just Wednesday night that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) railed against the Affordable Care Act, calling it a "catastrophic failure" for people everywhere.

"This is beyond fixing. It needs to be pulled out root and branch and we need to start over," McConnell said during an interview on Fox's "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "It's been a catastrophe for health care and for the economy at large."

But the governor of McConnell's home state came to Capitol Hill on Thursday with a vastly different message: the health care law is working, and people in Kentucky can't get enough of it.

"I have a U.S. senator who keeps saying Kentuckians don't want this. Well, the facts don't prove that out," Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) told reporters.

Beshear said more than 550,000 people have visited the state's Obamacare enrollment website since it launched on Oct. 1. More than 180,000 have called into the health care call center and about 69,000 people have signed up, or about 1,000 Kentuckians per day. Of those who have signed up, he said, 41 percent are under the age of 35.

"There is a tremendous pent-up demand in Kentucky for affordable health care," Beshear said. "People are hungry for it." The governor also boasted of the law's economic benefits to the state.

Over the next eight years, he said, it will generate $15 billion for Kentucky's economy and create 17,000 new jobs.

Right now is that fuzzy area of politics right before the 2014 mid terms when politicians are trying to determine whether it is better to use the Affordable Care Act to attack their opponents, or whether their opponents can use it as a positive to help them get elected or reelected.

It is not precisely clear right now which way the chips may fall but if things go the way I anticipate they will then Mitch McConnell is going to have a VERY difficult time retaining his seat. And THIS woman may end up being the first female Senator in Kentucky's history.




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