Thursday, November 1, 2012

E4

I researched the Wisconsin Senate race, between Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D) and former Governor Tommy Thompson (R).
 This is Tammy Baldwin.Based on a horse race poll taken by the Marquette Law School, she has a four point lead (47% - 43%). This poll was conducted October 25-28 to both landline and cell phone users. Pictured below is Tommy Thompson.

The candidates' stances on health care are extremely different. Thompson thinks Congress needs to completely get rid of Obamacare and start over. He believes that the regulations create complexity, drive up prices and prevent a dynamic insurance market; it disconnects economic realities and consumer choices; and lacks market-based solutions that create competition and reward quality, innovation and efficiency. However, Baldwin worked to pass the Affordable Care Act in Congress, along with helping write the amendment that allows young people to stay on their parents' insurance until they are 26. She disagrees with starting over because it would allow insurance companies to deny coverage to Wisconsin children with pre- existing conditions, throw young people off of their parents' plan and raise the cost of prescription drugs for the seniors of Wisconsin.
Tammy has said, "His [Tommy Thomson] plan would raise taxes on the middle class, and that's just wrong."
Tommy has said, "Wisconsin is in my blood, my family came here in the 1860's, settling on land that I still farm today."

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