Election uncertainty made holding off on a health insurance exchange or Medicaid expansion appealing to conservative Governors. And while many are still resisting, experts in the trenches believe that is on the verge of changing now that President Obama has been reelected.
Karen Martin heads up the Spartanburg, S.C., Tea Party chapter. She is undaunted by the prospect of duking it out with the state's Republicans, the current presidential candidates or President Obama.
Soundbites and slogans don't approximate the whole PPACA picture, but many U.S. citizens base their understanding -- and potentially their votes -- solely on what politicians tell the public.
South Carolina's 50 or so Tea Party chapters have proven their mettle locally. Whether they can do so in a national election is another matter. But is the movement cooling elsewhere in America?