Obama Has Told Aides To Get Positive Obamacare Coverage From Local Media
Thinks it's not worth trying to work on national media
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.
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Local news is no help in the Tampa Bay area. Nightly newscasts seem to focus on Obama's failing approval rating which they link to Obamacare.