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The Health Care Brawl: Why Obama's Team Thinks It Can Win
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Mar 18, 2010 07:02am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Michael Sherer |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Thursday, March 18, 2010 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Barack Obama's top pollster, Joel Benenson, talks fast. "Like a New Yorker, because I am," he says. The night before we spoke, he slept four hours, and after more than a year of watching the numbers slide around his big client's signature initiative, health care reform, one can forgive him for betraying a bit of frustration. "It's never enough to just say people are unhappy," he explains. "You've got to understand why they are unhappy."
Since August, he's had to deal with "death panels," the "cornhusker kickback" and daily proclamations of a "government takeover" of health care. He has watched Obama's approval rating fall from the high 60s to the high 40s, while opposition to Democratic health care reforms have inched above 50% in many polls. Recently, he's even had Republican leaders declare that Democratic hopes for the November elections will collapse if health care reform becomes law. "Do you really think the Republicans are out there trying to save Democrats from themselves?" he asks. |
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