About 585,000 GOP and third-party voters showed up at the polls, but the anti-Obamacare measure received 670,000 votes. So, who were the other 85,000 people who voted for Prop-C? Michael Tanner does the math:
Even if the 40,000 or so voters who apparently cast a vote for Proposition C but not for a primary candidate all voted in favor of proposition, as well as every single Republican and third-party voter, that still leaves nearly 45,000 Democrats who must have also voted with their Republican constituents in upholding their right to obtain health insurance on a voluntary basis.
He also points out that these 45,000 were not ordinary Democrat voters:
These are the base of the Democratic Party, the most politically active citizens, and yet somewhere between 12-25% of them decided to oppose the individual mandate, notably in a state that is often the bellwether of national election campaigns.
But Dem Senator McCaskill says her constituents just don’t understand:
I think there has been … a lot of noise about the mandate that people have gotten so focused on that they don’t realize that there’s going to be more access and affordability and more choices.
Senator McCaskill’s comments do indeed suggest that there are people in Missouri who don’t get it. These people are referred to as Democrat politicians. Maybe they’ll figure it out on November 2.
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