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Health care suits didn't save AGs
This March, two attorneys general took the lead in lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the health care overhaul: South Carolina's Henry McMaster and Florida's Bill McCollum. Another, Michigan's Mike Cox, soon signed on.
The lawsuits made them national leaders on the central national issue, and seemed tailor-made for Republican primaries. But all three lost those primaries, as CNN's Peter Hamby noted of the first two last night.
McMaster lost to Nikki Haley, whose reform message trumped his series of adstouting his health care fight. Cox, who also put his health care suit on air, lost to a wealthy businessman who ran on a non-ideological platform under the slogan, "one tough nerd." McCollum lost to Rick Scott, and there the message may not be as clear -- Scott was also a leading national foe of the health care bill.
But the suggestion to take from this, I think, is that the "throw the bums out" sentiment shouldn't be mistaken for an argume
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