There is reason to question whether Obama should even try to sell ObamaCare to the public. There is little evidence he is able to persuade voters of the merits of the legislation:

Now that his health care initiative has passed, President Barack Obama has hit the campaign trail to sell it to voters. Early indications are that despite all the spin from both sides, hardly anybody is changing their mind.

Currently, two weeks after passage, 54% of the nation’s likely voters still favor repealing the new law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% oppose repeal. Those numbers virtually unchanged from last week and the week before. They include 43% who Strongly Favor repeal and 32% who Strongly Oppose it.

The public remains strongly opposed to the bill — seemingly indifferent to how historic it was. And if their own experience — cuts in Medicare Advantage and rising premium costs — is negative, that aversion is likely to solidify, just as the negative view of the stimulus plan became entrenched as it failed to deliver on its promised job creation/savings. Perhaps Obama is pumping up the base, but by talking endlessly about a bill that a large majority of conservatives and independents despises, one wonders if he is doing his congressional allies any favors. The more Obama focuses on his “historic” achievement, the more he emphasizes that ObamaCare — not the economic recovery and job creation — has been his obsession. And that inconvenient truth will be a weight around the ankles of every Democrat on the ballot.