{"id":170430,"date":"2010-01-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/larry-kissell-opposes-healthcare-reform-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-12T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:00:00","slug":"this-democrat-is-cruising-to-re-election-by-opposing-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170430","title":{"rendered":"This Democrat Is Cruising To Re-Election By Opposing Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b4c9c150000000000121988&amp;maxX=312&amp;maxY=234\" border=\"0\" alt=\"larry kissell\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this Year of the Elephant, at least one Democrat is doing fine. That would be North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell, who is in a conservative district, but is leading in polls by 14-18 points.<\/p>\n<p>But, as <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/73739\/swing-district-dem-in-good-shape-after-bucking-party-on-health-care\">Dave Wiegel notes<\/a>, he&#8217;s an opponent of the current healthcare reform bill, and so his GOP opponent doesn&#8217;t have much to run on.<\/p>\n<p>This is why healthcare reform is no done deal just yet.<\/p>\n<p>As fellow Democrats watch Kissell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scott-brown-raises-1-million-online-2010-1\">and the race in deep blue Massachusetts<\/a>, it&#8217;s easy to see which side to play on if you want re-election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/larry-kissell-opposes-healthcare-reform-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/healthcare-legislation-will-tax-married-couples-for-beingmarried-2010-1\">A New Marriage Penalty: Healthcare Bill Could Whack Couples To The Tune Of $2,000<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scott-brown-raises-1-million-online-2010-1\">Insurgent GOP Senate Candidate In Massachusetts Has Amazing $1 Million Night Online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/healthcare-lobbyists-descend-on-massachusetts-to-save-the-60th-vote-for-reform-2010-1\">Panicked Healthcare Lobbyists Descend On Massachusetts To Save The 60th Democratic Vote For Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/LsyrvVbZ1uQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Year of the Elephant, at least one Democrat is doing fine. That would be North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell, who is in a conservative district, but is leading in polls by 14-18 points. But, as Dave Wiegel notes, he&#8217;s an opponent of the current healthcare reform bill, and so his GOP opponent doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}