Medicaid giveaway: An exclamation point on a dreadful NC legislative session

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5. We lost the General Assembly in 2010, which meant Rs got to redistrict

And they gerrymandered like nothing I've ever seen

The reality, during the quarter-century or so I've lived here, is that NC is almost evenly divided D/R, so turn-out really matters. The cause of the 2010 loss, IMO, was the low 2010 turn-out, driven by the I'm-so-disappointed-with-Obama bullshizz that started even before he took office in January 2009

In recent years, Ds have gotten a majority of the votes -- but the screwy gerrymanders produce overwhelming R majorities in the state House and Senate. It'll be hard to beat until the public gets really disgusted with the R craziness