Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod told the Washington Post that that in calling the individual mandate a tax, Republicans are “sliming” their own nominee. Axelrod was responding to Mitt Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom’s comments Monday in which he agreed with Democrats — and disagreed with many in his own party — that the individual mandate is neither a tax in “Obamacare” nor in Romney’s Massachusetts health care overhaul.
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