Michael Barone:

Health care 2010 is polling 12 points behind Obama 2008. To get an idea of what that means district by district, subtract 12 points from Obama’s percentage in each one. When you do that, you find that there are only 115 Democratic members in seats where the putative support for the health care legislation is 50 percent or higher — 101 votes short of the 216 votes needed for a majority in a House with vacancies in four Democratic seats.

Perhaps this helps explain the necessity for Speaker Pelosi’s three options.

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