MSNBC’s Chuck Todd: “…This conventional wisdom is setting in that the President’s not helpful to Democrats in swing districts in November. But if somebody who he has spent a lot of political capital on trying to get across the finish line can’t win a Democratic primary in the swing state of Colorado, that just is going to make them feel even more powerless, and clearly, have some Democrats doing a ton of finger pointing at the White House, at each other.”

The Obama Administration is working the phones hard to get U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet past Andrew Romanoff in Colorado’s Democratic primary, including a robocall and a telephone town hall featuring Pres. Obama, and a phone bank by the Democratic National Committee this weekend on Bennet’s behalf.

A loss by Bennet in Tuesday’s primary could signal an indictment of the White House by voters, a la the Brown/Coakley U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts. This time, though, the loss would be an indictment by DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY voters, which could indicate deep problems for Democrats heading into the midterm elections. If your own soldiers aren’t following you, it becomes a very lonely march.

In a separate clip from the one above, Todd asked White House strategist David Axelrod what a Bennet loss would say about the White House’s influence with its own party. After touting the qualifications of Bennet and reiterating White House support for him, Axelrod said:

(at 10:08) at RealClearPolitics:

“But look, Chuck, our whole philosophy of politics is that politics is, begins at the grass roots, change from the bottom up and so on. That’s always what we’ve said. Ultimately people will make these decisions. And we will, we will respect those decisions. All we can do is make the case, and we will. The President is very popular among Democrats in Colorado. But he also respects the right of Democrats in Colorado to make their own decisions.”

It sounds to me like the Obama Administration is doing everything it can to help Bennet – while also hedging its bet.