The South Bend Tribune reports that President Barack Obama, on his swing through Northern Indiana, just pledged $39 million in electric car grants to the Navistar company during a speech at the company’s RV plant.
The paper describes the scene thus:
The president received a standing ovation from the crowd when he announced the federal stimulus money. But less than half the crowd stood up when the president started talking about his other initiatives, including health insurance reform.
A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 72% of voters don’t believe in Obama’s promise to reform health care without increasing the deficit, and also that they disapprove of Obama’s handling of health care by 52%-39%. This poll reflects what several others have recently found, including an NPR poll that found 47 percent disapproval and just 42 percent approval of the health care proposals before Congress.
