The Take: Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price
As the final round of the battle over health-care reform begins Sunday, President Obama and the Democrats are in reach of a historic legislative achievement that has eluded presidents dating back a century. The question is at what cost. Full Story »
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More on point at this stage, when passage is assured, is how the public will come to view a president who put his personal prestige on the line for something in which he deeply believed? It is much more reasonable to believe that Obama's approval ratings will turn upwards, as will those of his party as the elections near. If the right continues to negatively harp on this issue in the summer and fall, what will be historic will be its inability to gain seats in an off-year election.