There’s no doubt Sen. Blanche Lincoln cast a — maybe THE — critical vote to end a filibuster and pass the Senate health reform bill. Without that vote, there’d be no talk today about the end to insurance company discrimination against sick people. It’s also true that she voted in the Senate against the House’s stronger “reconciliation” measure.

As Politico notes, this left her open to attack from both sides of the question.

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Lincoln has issued a statement taking sharp exception to the SEIU ad, which plays up the vote the union didn’t like, rather than the one it did. Lincoln’s response notes that the senator is criticized in the ad by someone they once used for their own testimonial.

 

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