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Political Scientist Larry Jacobs said Thursday evening that two of the crucial differences in Obama's strategy are not getting much attention.

"One is to minimize the cost in the short term to the stakeholders, and so you see a remarkable array of health-care stakeholders who were opposed to the Clinton effort ... becoming supportive of what the Obama White House is doing," Jacobs told about 250 people at a continuing education forum on the U's St. Paul campus. "The other element that the Obama White House has been pursuing is to delay costs to the future and to obscure the impact of these costs," said Jacobs, director of the Humphrey Institute's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. "Now this is an element that is very important and it's gotten almost no attention."

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