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Politico, strange things
are afoot in the world
of Obamacare and the
media, as the White House makes
its case for the law:
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President Barack Obama has
bungled HealthCare.gov so badly
that he’s told senior aides to not
even try to win positive coverage
from the national press.
Instead, they’re going local.
In the past month, Obama and
his Cabinet have hit nine of the
top 10 cities with the highest
concentration of the uninsured,
while senior administration officials have held almost daily reporter conference calls in nearly
a dozen states to challenge Republican governors who refuse to
expand Medicaid.
OH NOES, what’s going on here?
Obama is bypassing the national
press and instead targeting the local
media? Surely, that’s bizarre, right?
Well, actually, it’s not really
a new thing to see the Obama
White House take its message to
the hinterlands. During the 2012
campaign, talking to the local me-
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