Pundits are debating what effect a Supreme Court decision to strike down the Obama health care law will have on Obama's reelection and Democratic aspirations to retake the House and keep the Senate. The Republicans have been building up a fall strategy to use the health care bill to defeat Obama. Many Democrats do not approve of the bill and desire a single-payer transformation of Medicare to all Americans as a cheaper and more direct means of achieving both cost containment and coverage of all Americans.
It seems that the Democrats can win by losing. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law the Republicans lose one of their most significant talking points and the Democrats can push ahead in the fall for universal health care on a more comprehensive basis. The idea that having the Supreme Court strike down the law weakens Obama is absurd given the fact that the ruling would come from the 5 Republican conservative judges and only energize the Democratic base to have Obama reelected to have another chance to replace another Justice. So in this one, the Democrats have more to gain by losing than by winning as a win will energize the Republican base to elect a Republican president to appoint more conservative Justices and to revisit the law to strike it down in the future.