Ken Cuccinelli and the rest of the Republican party said that the Virginia Governor's race was a referendum on Obamacare. They made the claim so often that the media started to echo "A referendum on Obamacare" throughout the campaigning. Now that Cuccinelli has lost, the "referendum" meme doesn't sound so great after all. "After Cuccinelli’s closer-than-expected loss, the defiant candidate and his supporters said the election results were only a blip on the radar of the larger conservative struggle as they blamed the defeat on Obamacare and a deluge of Democratic attack ads." Now the only reason Cuccinelli had any chance of winning the election at all is because of Obamacare, the shiny new catch-all for all things bad and evil. However... "According to the exit polls, only 27 percent of Virginia voters saw the health law as the top issue, and among them, only a bare plurality (49-45) supported Cuccinelli.

 

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