There will be a lot written today about Missouri voters’ overwhelming approval of Proposition C, a repudiation of Obamacare’s individual mandate. But the results may be even more devastating for the Democrats than initially thought.
According to preliminary results, just under 668,000 Missourians voted in favor of Proposition C. Only 578,000 Republicans voted in their party’s primaries. Another 40,000 voters appear to have cast votes on Proposition C without voting in either the Republican or Democratic primaries. So, even if you assume that every single Republican voted for the initiative and every person who didn’t vote in a primary voted for it, at least 40,000 Democrats — more than one in every eight Democratic primary voters — voted against the centerpiece of President Obama’s health-care plan. And these aren’t just any registered Democrats; these are the party activists, the Democratic base.
Do we need any more evidence of how unpopular this bill is?
– Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
I've had cable news on all day -- Fox has mentioned this a couple times, MSNBC and CNN haven't mentioned it at all that I have heard.
If Obamacare falls in the forest and the MSM doesn't report on it . . . . ?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt doesn't matter what the establishment media does. They have been shilling relentlessly both for Obama and Obamacare. So what do they have to show for it? In a bellwether state like Missouri, where the St. Louis Democrats can always steal a close election, voters repudiated with 71% of the vote. All the establishment media is accomplishing by their shilling is completely discrediting themselves. Missouri was their best-case scenario; from here on it gets ugly, indeed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust so, Jeremiah. Ignoring important stories in the name of sycophantic "politics" just discredits those in the media who do it.
It may also fool some of the "stupid left" into thinking that there is nothing to worry about, which is only going to make them even angrier once they wake up to reality ("what do you mean Obamacare isn't popular?!?!")
If Obamacare fails in Missouri and the MSM doesn't report on it, that's the sound of liberals only fooling themselves!
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