- Battered by Trump, Obamacare Triumphs at the Polls Politico by Rachana Pradhan — The 2010 health law survived a GOP repeal onslaught and buoyed Democrats on Tuesday — Obamacare made a comeback in Tuesday's elections, its strongest show of support since President Donald Trump was elected and the GOP spent months on a futile effort to repeal it. In the governor's race in Virginia and a ballot initiative in Maine, the Affordable Care Act buoyed Democrats, a remarkable reversal from how Trump and congressional Republicans won elections excoriating the "failed" and "doomed" law. A remarkable 4 out of 10 Virginians in early exit polls said health care was their top issue in a race that saw Democrat Ralph Northam, the current lieutenant governor, handily defeat Republican Ed Gillespie to become Virginia's next governor. And in Maine, voters in a landslide backed Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which their governor had vetoed on five separate occasions.
- Health Care, for Years a Political Winner for GOP, Now Powers Democratic Wins Los Angeles Times by Noam Levey — The polarizing issue of health care, which has dragged down Democrats since passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, emerged from Tuesday's state elections as a potentially formidable new force in the party's efforts to regain power in next year's congressional elections.