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President Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll-call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they'd be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton, speaking to the Senate Democrats' lunch on Nov. 10, cited his party's big losses in 1994 after Congress failed to pass his health-care legislation as evidence that Democrats would suffer more from failure to pass a bill than from disaffection with a bill that was signed into law. These were closed meetings, but we can safely assume that the two Democratic presidents also assured...

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President Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll-call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they'd be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton, speaking to the Senate Democrats' lunch on Nov. 10, cited his party's big losses in 1994 after Congress failed to pass his health-care legislation as evidence that Democrats would suffer more from failure to pass a bill than from disaffection with a bill that was signed into law. These were closed meetings, but we can safely assume that the two Democratic presidents also assured...

Original Article: Forum: News/Activism