WASHINGTON -- A focus group of suburban Philadelphia voters convened Monday night by Democratic pollster Peter Hart praised former President Bill Clinton as a "paragon of greatness," as Hart later described it. Friday afternoon, Clinton met with President Barack Obama and then spoke to reporters, offering his support for the tax deal Obama recently reached with Republican congressional leaders.
Coincidence? Perhaps, but either way, the White House has good reason to tout Clinton's high-profile advice given the popularity of the former president, evident in both Hart's focus groups and in more rigorous national-media opinion polls.
Bill Clinton, Obama's Surprisingly Popular Ally (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/bill-clinton-popular-obama-ally_n_795247.html)