President Obama is set to appear in New Hampshire this afternoon, to tour a small business and tout his new job initiatives in a town hall meeting. It's the President's 3rd trip outside of Washington since his State of the Union address (although admittedly Baltimore isn't that far away), as he continues to try to reset his agenda in the 2nd year of his term.
The focus is on jobs and job creation, mixed in with talk about deficit reduction, which are somewhat contradictory (the President wants to spend $100 billion on various plans to stimulate job growth), but what the public says they truly care about in early 2010.
One thing not being discussed at any length today is health care. Democrats continue to discuss amongst themselves how they want to move forward on the issue, and by no means are they going to drop it, despite what some polls and the election of Scott Brown means.
This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2010.