Health Care

Bucking The Trend? Dems In Tough Races Run On Vote For Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

Brian Beutler | October 14, 2010, 9:10AM

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. John Larson (D-CT)

The conventional wisdom suggests that Democrats are "running scared" from health care reform. But the truth is that most Democrats have nothing to be afraid of -- and those who do, by and large, voted against it. Of course, some of the vulnerable Dems who voted for the bill are happy to avoid the subject. But a surprising number are running on reform, in ads, op-eds, and debates in their states and districts.

While it's true that a number of the most conservative and vulnerable Dems are outwardly repudiating their party's leadership, Speaker Pelosi herself yesterday sought to set the record straight on Democratic pride in reform.

"It's important to note -- and I say this all the time -- the plural of anecdote is not data," she told reporters. "At least 200 members are out there boasting the benefit of the health care bill. At least. There may be some who did vote for the bill who are not talking it up -- they didn't vote for it. There are others who are soft peddling it, maybe, because other issues are working for them better. "

Below the top five examples of Democrats turning the CW on its head.

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Red-State Dem's Ad Touts His Work With Bush (VIDEO)

Eric Kleefeld | September 27, 2010, 3:00PM

Ad from Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), "Difference"

Who would have thought that in the year 2010, a member of Congress would be running for re-election on the basis of how well he worked with George W. Bush -- and who would have imagined that the Congressman in question would be a Democrat?

"When George Bush proposed a Medicare prescription drug plan, Earl Pomeroy voted yes, putting seniors before party," the announcer says, then turning the tables on Pomeroy's Republican opponent: "Rick Berg would roll back prescription drug coverage."

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