If Rubio becomes president, will he gut or change Obamacare?

[angus]

how about Rubio?

one can only hope.  I think we're stuck with it for a while.

voted NO.

[angus]

I agree.  You have to sweep the house and control at least 60 senate seats to get any of the president's legislative agenda accomplished.  This what I always say when folks give me the hairy eyeball when I say that I'm supporting Bernie Sanders, and we're in it to win win it. Talking heads always going on about "how is he going to achieve his legislative agenda?  There's no way he'll get what he wants" as though that's a bad thing.  As long as one party controls the executive branch, and another controls the national legislature, they we can be sure that they're not going to fuck anything up too badly. 

My general position is that when I think the GOP is going to control the congress, I vote for a Democrat president, and when I think the Democrats will control the congress, I vote for a Republican president.  Gridlock is good. 

The PPACA is a particularly unfortunate bit of legislature, and probably a special case, since it is tailor-made to funnel wealth away from the many and toward the few.  (Ironically, many of its detractors claim that it is "socialist" when it is in fact the opposite thereof.)  It places many unnecessary burdens on individuals and on society as a whole.  Unsurprisingly, it is "popular" as has been pointed out.  Too bad those who voted on it didn't read the bill, as they freely admitted afterward.  Still, unless the GOP can control both the house and at least 60 seats in the senate, it will not be deconstructed.  I think your assessment is fair (except for some of the really inside baseball bit, which I don't totally understand).  Clearly, it is with us to stay.  Unfortunately.

also, that's a really big map.  Was that really necessary?  I have to scroll right just to read your post.  Please try to be more considerate in the future.