David Axelrod concedes the White House didn’t have a plan for what to do about health care reform if Democrats lost the Massachusetts election.

“The truth is the flares went up about 10 days before that election,” Axelrod told reporters this afternoon. “There wasn’t much discussion about the implications if the thing went the other way.”

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