California, Florida and Texas are home to more than one-third of the nation’s 46 million uninsured people. If the White House and its allies can’t convince large chunks of the uninsured in those three states to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, the administration could have a very hard time reaching its enrollment goals.

If Obamacare were a presidential race, these would be the “swing states.” Instead of a trove of voters, they’ve got millions of uninsured, and they’ll get high-profile administration visits, money, resources and loads of national press attention. And many of those uninsured are the “young invincibles” — the young healthy people who need to be brought into the new insurance markets to balance out the older and sicker customers…

Here, the law — and the president — is so popular among the uninsured that they train volunteers to call it Obamacare. In most other states, volunteers are taught to use less politically charged terms.

Because of the money and resources, California is frequently touted as the state that is implementing the Affordable Care Act most actively and aggressively. The stakes couldn’t be higher.