What You Might Hear From Obama Tomorrow...

As of now, we don't expect President Obama to offer his thoughts on the special election until he sits down with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News tomorrow afternoon. Might change. It's gonna be hard to resist saying something....  So what will Obama say when he's asked the inevitable question: what message were voters trying to send?

My guess is something along the lines of:

 "....they're sending a message to all of us in Washington, myself included, that they're impatient with the pace of this recovery... that they're worried about burdening their children with debt... that their outraged that fat cats on Wall Street, the folks who acted irresponsibly to put us into this mess, aren't sharing the pain and are getting huge bonuses. We -- and I -- have got to a better job of focusing on getting this economy back on track and doing so in a way that sets a foundation for a sustainable future. That is priority number one. It is essential. I am committed to it. Not just in words, but in action. And that means that Congress needs to make hard choices too."

Just a guess....

Point of fact: the whole reason the president undertook health insurance reform is because premiums going up, small businesses and Americans who are gouged in the individual insurance market; on behalf of people with pre-existing conditions who are denied coverage, and the seriously ill, who routinely see their coverage dropped.

"He's not going to walk away from them now," a top Democrat told me.

Meaning: health care reform isn't going away, and the White House isn't interpreting this election as a referendum on it. The Democrat noted that Scott Brown didn't run a single ad about health care.  For an alternative point of view, check out Neil Newhouse's take on the POS blog. He was Brown's pollster.