Recommended; Obama’s Best Hope for Reelection

There is an interesting post over on The Daily Beast by Michael Tomasky, Obama's Best Hope for Reelection. Tomasky, a liberal, notes that the constitutionality of the individual mandate in ObamaCare will no doubt be resolved by the Supreme Court just before the next election. He certainly hopes the Supreme Court upholds ObamaCare and doesn't declare it unconstitutional, and he acknowledges that if it is overturned, it would reflect poorly on Obama just before the election.

But he ponders what the effect will be if the Supreme Court upholds the law. He wonders whether that wouldn't infuriate and energize the conservative movement so much that it would assure Obama's defeat. This is an interesting speculation. Obama in particular and Democrats in general may do better in the next election if the law isn't upheld than if it is.