Lead, Don’t Quit because It’s Safer Politically, Says Obama Campaign’s Plouffe

u000b That’s not entirely unlike the predictions many here in Washington had for the Democrats’ health care reform efforts after Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat that had been occupied by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and the Democrats’ potential supermajority in the Senate vaporized (NAHC Report, 1/20/10). At that time, while himself…