Looks like this speech came none too soon. A 14 point swing in approval for Obama's plan:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...mas-proposals/
These sorts of "snap polls" can be a little fickle, but it does show that Obama should be playing to his strengths--he's been trying to be above the fray a little too much. His forte is message-making, and he needs to be getting in there and using the bully pulpit as much as he can.
That's not to say that I love his health care plan--but at least he's standing up to the mountain of lies that the GOP has deployed against it.