The GOP's Obamacare sabotage summed up in one chart.

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Courtesy of TPM: The GOP's relentless assault on Obamacare hasn't succeeded in repealing or defunding the law, but it has managed to do something: prevent a lot of uninsured Americans from getting health insurance. 

With three months of Obamacare enrollment completed, the effect of the Republican intransigence on health care reform can be seen in new data compiled by Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and director of the Scholars Strategy Network. 

Though it is a federal law, the Affordable Care Act is a program that relies on states. States had the opportunity to set up its own health insurance marketplace, and states were heavily incentivized to expand Medicaid to cover their poor -- though the choice was up to them. 

Largely as a result of the entrenched opposition of state GOP leaders, only 14 states (plus D.C.) have built their own marketplaces, and just half the states decided to expand Medicaid in the first year. Heading into 2014, those two state-based decisions have created a huge disparity between states under the law. 

Skocpol has quantified that disparity in the chart above. She's attempted to measure how much progress different groups of states -- those that both expanded Medicaid and built their marketplace, for example -- have made in signing their residents up for private coverage and Medicaid under Obamacare. 

The difference between the top and the bottom groups tells the whole story. Those states, like California and New York, that have fully bought into the ACA have performed exceedingly well in enrolling their citizens. They're already 43 percent of their way toward their projected Medicaid enrollment, as calculated by Skocpol, and 37 percent of the way there on private coverage.

Ultimately the people who suffer the most from the Republican obstructionism are the people living in the states where they are in charge. (And that includes me up here in Alaska as well of course.)

The Republicans were hoping to use the website troubles and cherry picked, exaggerated, stories of people losing their health care or having to pay higher premiums and deductibles to defeat the Democrats in 2014.

But I think that the Democrats have a very good shot at using their refusal to cooperate with the ACA, and their attempts to sabotage it at every opportunity, against them.

In the end it may all come down to who reaches the voters the best. The GOP with their lies and exaggerations, or the Democrats with their facts and truthful stories of the benefits of the ACA, and how much more there would be if not for the Republicans they are running against.