This idea that the right is voting against their best interest needs to die. The thing the left forgets is that poor people don't vote[1]. So what you have in t

This idea that the right is voting against their best interest needs to die. The thing the left forgets is that poor people don't vote[1]. So what you have in these "poor" red states are lower-middle/middle class people who are already being stretched thin voting against their poor neighbors who they can't afford to support. Like it or not Obamacare did cost middle class people money in the sense that their tax dollars went to pay for subsidies, their employers were required to spend more on health care, more demand for medical services drives prices higher and the individual mandate meant healthy people had to buy something they didn't want or be fined. Universal healthcare, tax credits for the poor and cash welfare can all be viewed through the same lens. 1. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr/24/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-said-poor-people-dont-vote/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr/...