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President Obama and Senate Democrats have pledged to make the 2010 midterm elections a referendum on Obamacare.
"If Republicans want to campaign against what we have done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have,"
Obama said Thursday. But during Sunday's rally for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley at Northeastern University--Obama's first campaign appearance of 2010--he tried to keep the spotlight off of the health care legislation that Massachusetts voters could kill on Tuesday.
Obama mentioned "Wall Street" five times while talking about his proposal to tax banks. He mentioned taxes more than a dozen times. But when it came to health care, the president could muster only a few oblique references to health care reform in general.
The reason for this shiftiness is obvious: Massachusetts voters oppose Obamacare. In fact, they oppose "President Obama's health care plan" 48% to 40%, according to the new PPP poll... [snip]Coakley too didn't mention the health care legislation in Congress...
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