O'Donnell was asked by Olbermann: "What should we make of Mr. Obama in New Hampshire, skeptics reasonable to his face, others with vile things to say, sort of at the perimeter."
O'Donnell responded: "Well now you see why Senators want to be President. If Barack Obama was doing a town hall meeting in Joliet today, as the Senator from Illinois, he'd probably be getting shouted down a bit, he'd probably be running into Arlen Spector troubles..."
View the entire clip of this segment on health care town halls here (Joliet is mentioned around 7:40):
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