Obama's answering questions about the stimulus this afternoon in a town hall style meeting at noon (eastern) in Elkhart, Indiana. If you're on Twitter, reporter Matthew Tully will be twittering at the event, else it will be at CNN.com. Tonight, Obama will be on our TVs at 8 p.m. Eastern. Tomorrow, he'll be in Fort Myers, Florida answering questions about the stimulus. Republican governor Charlie Crist will be lending Obama a hand tomorrow in Florida.
Governors like the stimulus because their budgets are strained and they're seeing their states, first hand, fall into deeper economic woes.
A shout out to Susan Collins, R-Maine, for being one of the few republicans who participated in crafting the stimulus. On the Today Show, she said the bill wouldn't be the one the republicans would craft but the bill is needed and it will make a difference. If only the rest of the republicans could be so inspired.
Also tomorrow, Timothy Geithner, treasury secretary, will unveil the second part of the plan for the banking system. A Gallup poll shows that Obama's in a good place:
I'll post video from Elkhart when it's up.
A shout out to Susan Collins, R-Maine, for being one of the few republicans who participated in crafting the stimulus. On the Today Show, she said the bill wouldn't be the one the republicans would craft but the bill is needed and it will make a difference. If only the rest of the republicans could be so inspired.
Also tomorrow, Timothy Geithner, treasury secretary, will unveil the second part of the plan for the banking system. A Gallup poll shows that Obama's in a good place:
Two thirds of Americans surveyed say they approve of the way the president is handling the government's attempt at an economic stimulus. Fewer than one-third say they approve of the way that Republicans in Congress are handling the problem.
This means that - with the Senate poised to approve a $827-billion bill on Tuesday and then send it to a House and Senate conference which is likely to turn out a measure that both the House and Senate will accept, with or without Republicans in the House and with only a few in the Senate - Obama may not need to ratchet up the public support he is courting today in Elkhart, tonight in a prime-time news conference and Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. Instead, the campaign-styled tour could simply be a way of bolstering the public support he has heading into the difficult weeks ahead. Swamp
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I'll post video from Elkhart when it's up.
