I do know of at least one House candidate I spoke with who said he wouldn't want the President campaigning for him, though he would welcome the First Lady - she's apparently popular even where he isn't. Then again, as the article argues, Democratic candidates may have a hard time positioning themselves away from the President in any case. A presidential visit will certainly raise cash, but will embracing the President really fire up the base? More from Cillizza at the Post:
Fight or flight?.
That is the question Democratic incumbents and challengers in this fall's elections are asking themselves when it comes to dealing with President Obama. Is the best course to distance oneself from a president whose job-approval rating has sunk below 50 percent and whose appeal to independents has gone missing? Or to embrace him and his policies -- the majority of which remain quite popular with the Democratic base that will be essential to any victories that the party claims this fall?
Powerful forces are lining up on both sides of that strategic divide
