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  • The politics of health care passage

    03/16/2010 12:02:23 PM PDT · by freespirited · 8 replies · 320+ views
    Wapo ^ | 03/16/10 | Chris Cillizza
    Even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scrambles for the 216 "yes" votes she needs to pass President Obama's health care reform bill, strategists on both sides of the partisan divide have begun to debate the political impact of what passage will mean. All sides agree that the overall bill is not particularly popular at the moment. Republicans ascribe that unpopularity to the fact that people know what's in the bill and don't like or want it. Democrats see the current poll numbers as evidence that they have lost the message war in the run-up to passage but once the bill...