by Scott Hensley

12:57 pm

August 11, 2009

 

The Commander In Chief will try his hand at selling the administration's plans for remaking the health-care system at a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., this afternoon.

We'll monitor what President Obama has to say and how the crowd behaves, after so many of these meetings have turned ugly.

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