Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Hurricane Healthcare Brushes Past Obama and Takes Aim at the US Congress

News Patterns discovers patterns and trends among overwhelming flows of news and social media, as defined by thousands of independent news content creators.  The most relevant topics win the center of our radar spaces.  Positions and movements define what a collective news intelligence is telling us in real-time, often correlating closely to polling results.  Topics that are near each other are highly connected or related to each other in the news.

In the following August 20, 2013 snapshot, one can see President Obama and the US Congress are the central news topics at the US Politics News Radar center.  Over the past six weeks we can see that the Healthcare (aka Obamacare) topic has emerged from low relevancy to become a significant disruption to US federal leadership.  In fact, the Healthcare topic first brushed past President Obama and is now taking aim at the US Congress.  Thousands of local town hall meeting articles are giving energy and direction to the healthcare storm.


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In spite of apparently missing the thrust of the Healthcare storm, President Obama and the White House should be preparing for the emerging Arab Spring storm that is being energized by civil strife in Egypt.
 

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