Nate Silver, a strong supporter of Obama, thinks the president and his party have screwed up the politics of healthcare. He thinks Obama is doing too much (he's becoming overexposed) and too little (he hasn't given voters a clear enough reason to get passionate about reform).
All is not lost, however, if the Dems can get their act together at this late stage:
The best thing that health care has going for it is that it doesn't necessarily need to be all that popular to pass. Congressional Democrats will simply have to acknowledge that, while the passage of a bill might not do them any favors in the near-term, its failure would almost certainly be much, much worse. But I'm not sure that Democrats had to find themselves in this lose-lose position in the first place. And I'm not sure that they can't find their way out of it, if they start to take more heed of what the public really needs to hear about their health care bill.
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