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From the New York Times Debate in the House is expected to begin this week, and the Senate will soon take up its version. Democratic leaders and senior White House officials are sounding increasingly confident that Mr. Obama will sign legislation overhauling the nation’s health care system — a goal that has eluded American presidents for decades. The Senate Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, described “a sense of inevitability, the sense that, yes, we’re going to pass health reform.” In interviews, senior advisers to the president said the progress on Capitol Hill vindicated Mr. Obama’s strategy of leaving the details up to lawmakers, though they are wary of sounding overconfident. President Obama is replicating what all his recent predecessors have done at this time of year. He is stumping for candidates who support his policies, raising money for his allies and his party, and pressuring Congress to pass his programs. The difference is that Obama has raised expectations among some Democrats that he is a miracle worker who can mobilize his vaunted network of supporters on behalf of various candidates on November 3… …Organizing for America, Obama's political organization that is now part of the Democratic National Committee, has been working behind the scenes to boost some candidates. The group sent an E-mail last week to thousands of Obama supporters urging them to vote for Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate in a hotly contested congressional race for an open seat in upstate New York. In the end, all these races will most likely be determined by state and local issues and the quality of the individual campaigns, rather than the Obama factor, which Republican strategists argue doesn't really exist because they say Obama simply can't transfer his support to anyone else…
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