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Health ruling looms small in Obama race

The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law.

By Charles Babington | Updated on March 28, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama’s re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law.

That wouldn’t be the case if anyone other than Mitt Romney was Obama’s likeliest Republican challenger this fall. Romney, however, is singularly ill-positioned to capitalize on the issue because he championed a similar health care law as Massachusetts governor in 2006.

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