by Gordon Hensley | Oct 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016, health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding
While the 2016 gubernatorial race outcomes will obviously have a major impact of future of state Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a bigger factor would be a Hillary Clinton victory over Donald Trump in the presidential race. “If Clinton wins,...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 23, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Television, Trump
“Temperament”…. for months, it’s been THE central focus of the collective Clinton forces’ massive negative campaign effort against Donald Trump. And why not? Trump has handed Clinton, her supporters, his many enemies in the media and...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 20, 2016 | Campaign 2016, polling, Trump, Uncategorized
On a purely structural level, Hillary Clinton must still remain a slight favorite to win the White House — but every new day brings the type of news every campaign dreads, and the certainty that eking out win will require a grueling, ugly trip through the meat...
by Gordon Hensley | Aug 27, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Health Reform, Trump
As reported in several media outlets this week, the first handful of states have released approved 2017 rates for people who buy health insurance on their own and the results are scary news for Democratic Senate and House candidates wrestling with the fact there are...
by Gordon Hensley | May 26, 2016 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, Trump
It’s uncanny: just as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to have turned a corner in his effort to consolidate GOP support, on the one hand, while tempering his general behavior to attract wavering persuadeables open to ‘change’, on the...
by Gordon Hensley | May 5, 2016 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, Trump
Tom Edsall’s New York Times piece, “The Great Trump Reshuffle” is the most fascinating look at polling and demographic data in months, and the implications of Donald Trump leading the 2016 Republican ticket to the Republican Party’s future are...