"Public Policy Polling notes President Obama's approval rating with people who didn't vote for him is 14% and his disapproval rating with people who voted for him is 6%.

"So he's won over twice as many people as he's lost since he got elected. Who in the national media is going to write that story? Not bad for someone whose support is supposedly falling apart."

Obama is motoring. The President's greatest potential opponent right now is himself, so it would be wise to stand strongly for the most robust public option so we can get the most robust competition to lower prices and increase quality. There is no sane political reason to sell out your party and the people who voted for you for Olympia Snowe's one vote. The Senate needs to display that it will work for consumers over the interests of the powerful and pass a bill via reconciliation, and own as a badge of courage. The people's support would become even more emphatic if Obama and the Senate not only meet expectations but surprise them by going above and beyond their expectations. If the 2008 election said anything, it said that it's time to break ties in favor of the people and not the corporations and the staus quo, and that's still not only the right thing to do policy wise, but also politically, because that's what 55-60% of the nation wants, real reform, not Snowe's one vote, or 60 votes in the Senate.