[elektikaka]

72% - 28%. And Missouri is a "purple" state. I thought the tea party was falling apart, losing steam. What happened???

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...rance-mandate/

Missouri Votes to Block Health Insurance Mandate

Published August 03, 2010
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections.

With about 70 percent of the vote counted late Tuesday, nearly three-quarters of voters threw their support behind a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it.

That would conflict with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014.

Tuesday's vote was seen as largely symbolic because federal law generally trumps state law. But it was also seen as a sign of growing voter disillusionment with federal policies and a show of strength by conservatives and the tea party movement.

Legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana and Virginia have passed similar statutes, and voters in Arizona and Oklahoma will vote on such measures as state constitutional amendments in November. But Missouri was the first state to challenge aspects of the law in a referendum.

Federal courts are expected to weigh in well before the insurance provision takes effect about whether the federal health care overhaul is constitutional.

The intent of the federal requirement is to broaden the pool of healthy people covered by insurers, thus holding down premiums that otherwise would rise because of separate provisions prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to people with poor health or pre-existing conditions.

[fmrcurter]

I'd like to see Florida put a measure on the ballot that no state resident had to pay federal income tax, but I doubt that would fly anymore than this measure in Missouri will. They can be pissed off all they want, but, oh well.

[Roxanjbra]

This was Missouri's Republican Primary election, thus turnout was over 60% Republican. So this is roughly like seeing a Rasmussen poll with a pre-selected GOP sample.