But how will it play in Peoria?
Gov. Rick Snyder (R-MI) needs some good news
as he's upside down in polling for the first time this year against Democrat Mark Schauer. This
might not be the good news he's needing.
Michigan's Medicaid expansion how now reached 75 percent of the total eligible, to 373,171 people. For those Michigan citizens, that's fantastic. For Snyder's re-election campaign, it might help. For his possible presidential ambitions, a disaster.
It's the same old story for swing state Republicans. If they want to keep their current political hopes alive, they've got to acknowledge reality and do the things that people want them to do, like expand Medicaid (see Gov. Tom Corbett [R-PA]). But doing the right thing is the last thing that's going to enamor them with the Republican base.