A reader in Kansas City writes in about a constituent meeting that had strong views, but not too much raw conflict:

This morning I went to “Coffee with Cleaver.” [Rep. Cleaver is my local Democratic congressman in the Kansas City, Mo and eastern suburbs area. I went because I saw the event on Rep. Cleaver’s web site.] Several hundred people turned out; a little more than half were against ObamaCare. Rep. Cleaver talked to two or three people at a time. [On the table was a paperback copy of HB 3200.] Thus my wife and I never got to say a word to him. The signs of the Obama supporters were almost all professionally made. People from Organizing for America were circulating a petition. [So much for Astroturfing!] Many of the anti-ObamaCare posters were home-made. The conservatives that I talked to were sick and tired of the federal government trying to take over our lives, spend us into oblivion, and cram socialized medicine down our throats.
Jacob Turk, a local Republican who had unsuccessfully run against Rep. Cleaver, was there, drumming up support another run. I told him I thought Rep. Cleaver would have to be found guilty of an axe-murder before he’d lose, so I asked him why he thought he could defeat this long-time liberal incumbent (who happens to be black). He said Rep. Cleaver had lost some support in the black community. In fact, a black college student was handing out his literature. Thus, in the current political climate, he thought he had a reasonable chance to win.
All in all, people on both sides were civil and exercised their 1st Amendment rights, as it should be.