The staff from Politico.com have created a list of the 10 "hot spots" for the health care debate across the country:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27650.html
The list includes the following: (1) Alabama, (2) South Jersey, (3) Arkansas, (4) New Hampshire; (5) Pennsylvania; (6) Oregon, (7) Western North Carolina, (8) Florida, (9) Southside Virginia and (10) Eastern Ohio. If you are teaching in or near any of these so-called "hotbeds", you might want to try asking your students what makes the area such a hotbed. Consider the following factors:
- Ideological fissures in the local electorate;
- Areas where the "generation gap" is most pronounced (younger people tend to support President Obama)
- Key local races in next year's local midterm elections in the area may well be decided by the fate of the health care program;
etc.
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