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For Senate Democrats running this year in Republican-leaning states, their struggle with how to deal with Obamacare's unpopularity left them biting their nails a bit harder after President Obama announced Tuesday that the health care law hit its 7 million enrollment goal.

While the White House continues touting the benefits of the law, polls consistently show more Americans disapprove of Obamacare -- a disconnect that's not helping as Democrats try to fire up voters in their effort to fend off a potential Republican takeover of the Senate.

But at a time when the economy is overwhelmingly viewed as the most important issue that the country faces, Obamacare could be the deciding issue of the midterms if Democrats allow it to be, pollsters and strategists in both parties say.

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Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, has broken with some in her party by saying that candidates should neither embrace Obamacare nor run away from it -- Democrats should run on a promise to fix it.

"Fix it, don't nix it, if you will. People should talk about the fact that there are parts of Obamacare that work and parts that need to be fixed, and that Democrats will be aggressive about fixing it," Lake told CBS News. "Because we shouldn't start all over again, and we shouldn't cancel the policies of 7 million people."

The Republican budget plan outlined last week by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan gives Democrats an opening, Lake said, much like it did in 2012. Ryan calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act, as well as tweaking Medicaid and Medicare, proposals that many Americans don't agree with, Lake argues.

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Democrats know the history: 2014 is all but certain to be a tough year. But there is a sense among some top Democratic strategists that the political climate is shifting in ways that could keep the midterm climate from turning from bad to disastrous.

Perhaps it is wishful thinking, and it is important -- very important -- to note how things look in April is often not how they turn out come November.

But Democrats just in the past week have received a few nuggets of potentially helpful news:

* Friday's Labor Department report showing the economy added 192,000 jobs in March.

* Enrollment in the President's health care plan crossed the 7 million mark at the first big deadline to sign up.

* A slight but potentially important uptick in President Barack Obama's approval rating. Gallup's daily tracking poll had this key midterm barometer at 45 percent on Friday, a near 2014 high and up from 39 percent in early February. (President George W. Bush had a 38 percent approval rating in November 2006 -- his second term midterm election -- and Democrats gained 30 House seats).

Plus, Democratic-leaning SuperPACS are beginning to spend more money, and in a few notable cases testing a new strategy of punching directly back at the source of millions of dollars in conservative spending that helped turn the early 2014 climate decidedly in favor of the GOP.

Not that Democrats should be popping -- or even ordering -- champagne. To be clear, top party strategists still expect to lose seats in both the House and the Senate. The goal, though, is to keep the House losses to single digits and to deny Republicans the net gain of six seats the GOP needs to take control of the Senate.

The principal driver of midterm election seasons is the President's approval rating; the closer the incumbent gets to 50 percent, the better Democrats feel about avoiding a November bloodbath.

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Joe Mendelson, the majority chief climate counsel with the Senate Committee on Environment,...

A new Gallup survey shows a stark partisan divide in Americans' beliefs on global warming. About one-third of the public -- mostly Democrats -- say they worry "a great deal" about global warming, while a much larger number, mostly Republicans and independents, say they worry about warming "only a little" or "not at all" or "a fair amount."

At the same time, a solid majority of Americans express great concern about a number of other environmental issues. It's just global warming that doesn't bother them much.

On the question of global warming, 34 percent say they worry about it a great deal. That is in contrast to the 60 percent who say they worry a great deal about pollution of America's drinking water; 53 percent who say they worry a great deal about contamination of soil and water by toxic waste; and 53 percent who say they worry a great deal about pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Slightly smaller numbers of Americans are deeply concerned about other issues: 46 percent say they worry a great deal about air pollution; 41 percent say they worry a great deal about the extinction of plant and animal species; and 41 percent say they worry a great deal about the loss of tropical rain forests. Only after all those other concerns comes global warming, at 34 percent. (When Gallup asked about concern over "climate change," the number was 35 percent, suggesting the name doesn't make much difference.)

There are significant partisan divisions on the warming issue. Gallup found that 56 percent of Democrats say they worry a great deal about global warming, while just 29 percent of independents and 16 percent of Republicans say the same thing. Twenty-seven percent of Democrats say they worry a fair amount about warming, compared to 19 percent of independents and 22 percent of Republicans. Finally, 63 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of independents say they worry about warming only a little or not at all, while only 18 percent of Democrats say the same thing.

"Democrats appear to have widely accepted the warnings about global warming," writes Gallup, while Republicans have not. "So long as global warming remains a politically charged issue, it will likely lag behind other environmental issues as a public concern."

That lag is striking. Among the public overall, there's a big difference between the 34 percent who worry a great deal about global warming and the 60 percent who worry a great deal about pollution of drinking water. (Gallup did not release partisan breakdowns on the other issues, but if 60 percent of Americans agree on something, there is likely a significant amount of bipartisan support.) In addition, concern about pollution of drinking water is rising up seven percentage points in the last year while concern about global warming is basically unchanged.

That 60 percent figure suggests a political strategy for Democrats who want to push Republicans on environmental issues. Rather than hold all-night talkathons about global warming, why not stage an event about the alleged danger that fracking in the oil and gas industry presents to the drinking water supply? No, it wouldn't unite all Democrats -- energy-state lawmakers would most certainly stay away -- but it would at least address a widespread public concern.

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