Alison Lundergan Grimes. Loser.

Alison Lundergan Grimes. Loser.

Three of the states that have benefitted the most from Obamacare and from Medicaid expansion voted last night for the people who want to take those gains away There's this quote in this story, from a report from Kentucky about how Medicaid expansion was working in the state, but still failing politically: "'Born and raised Republican,' Robin Evans, an eBay warehouse packer who was grateful for new Medicaid coverage, said of herself. 'I ain't planning on changing now.'" We don't know if Evans actually voted on Tuesday. We do know that Alison Lundergan Grimes didn't give her a reason to vote Democratic. Because she was so busy tiptoeing around the idea that she was actually a Democrat that she refused to make the obvious case: this one Democratic law made a profound difference in individual lives in her state. Lots of lives. Robin Evans' life.

Arkansas? West Virginia? Every day should have included Mark Pryor and Natalie Tennant going to the doors of new Medicaid recipients and taking credit for it. Every other ad on television should have been about how local hospitals were saved because of it. Because Democrats did it. That would have been a pretty good start in changing people's minds and maybe, just maybe, getting them to a polling booth.

The very dim bright spot now is that all these newly elected Republicans have vowed to stop Obamacare. Now they're on the hook for deciding whether to fulfill that promise and take health care away from their constituents or not.