An e-mail:

I think it will fail. We have a pretty long history of, in the end, voting down various measures that “everyone” tells us we should obviously vote for. In fact, the more a group piles on the ads, the lengthy list of groups endorsing something as being clearly wonderful for us, and so on, the more skeptical we become. If we think we’re being bought, or if we think maybe one side has the unfair advantage in pushing their issue, we’ll vote against it for that reason alone. A corollary to that is that any Missouri voter that walks into the booth not sure about the measure will vote against it. We didn’t earn our motto for nothing after all! Of course, it will help if Suppan pitches well tonight….:)