Missouri Anti-Mandate Vote Overwhelming (UPDATE: Not That the L.A. Times Cares)
How unpopular is ObamaCare’s mandate to buy health insurance? This unpopular:
With roughly a third of all precincts reporting, the anti-mandate vote is at … 75.8 percent. Good lord.
That’s from earlier in the evening. The final results are in, here, and with all precincts reporting, it’s 71% to 29%.
Spin that, Barry.
UPDATE: I should have said: spin that, L.A. Times editors. Because they are up to the task. For one thing, the vote doesn’t even make the front page of the L.A. Times. For another, they explain away the vote in this way:
Tuesday’s vote was held in conjunction with the state’s Democratic and Republican primaries, but GOP voters were expected to dominate the balloting because their primary included several contests that stirred greater interest.
That’s true, but it doesn’t explain the results entirely. I counted the number of votes in the top race on the ticket (for U.S. Senator). There were 315,787 votes cast for Democrats, and 580,947 cast for Republicans. Meaning 64% of total voters in the Senate race were Republican. Meaning that even if every single Republican voted against the mandate, that wouldn’t get you to the 71% opposition seen in the results.
Oh — and there could be another reason so many voters were Republicans, besides the fact that their races were so gosh-darned interesting. Namely: nobody wants to vote Democrat in these days of Obama’s 41% approval rating.
These tidbits didn’t make it into the story. That’s why you come here.
Don’t worry, Patterico. Andy Griffith will make us see that we’ll like it. Because these geniuses know what is best for us.
Eric Blair (aec019) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:00 pmRacist hilljacks. Every one of them.
JD (636015) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:05 pmWell, remember the integrity of this WH. Gibbs said he doesn’t get involved with local issues.
Vermont Neighbor (ea4670) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:13 pmIt’s those damn Rovian Mind-Rays again!
AD - RtR/OS! (37aceb) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:20 pmThe locals just told Barcky and Gibbs to sit and spin.
JD (636015) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:21 pmThe only areas to vote against (for Obamacare) were the two big urban areas, St. Louis and Kansas City, the rest of the State was overwhelmingly in favor of limiting Obamacare.
gahrie (ed7a50) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:21 pmBaghdad Bob Gibbs will probably urge everybody not to demagogue this like immigration.
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:27 pmdaley – Gibbs’ head should have assploded from the cognitive dissonance resulting from his whining that somebody else might demagogue an issue. Just like timmah earlier today.
JD (636015) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:34 pmEveryone always talks about red State vs blue States.
Isn’t it more accurate to talk about urban vs everywhere else?
gahrie (ed7a50) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:37 pmI don’t think that is accurate, gahrie. It depends on a strict definition of urban.
JD (636015) — 8/3/2010 @ 11:45 pmReally?
How Democratic would California be without LA and San Francisco?
Go back and look at election results broken down by precinct. They are very few rural Democratic precincts and almost no Republican urban precincts.
gahrie (ed7a50) — 8/4/2010 @ 12:02 amSo how would you count near/close suburbs? I was just pointing out that it seemed like a simplistic construct. YMMV
JD (636015) — 8/4/2010 @ 12:20 amI think if you suspend disbelief, you will find the professionals have established this trend pretty clearly.
gahrie (ed7a50) — 8/4/2010 @ 12:41 amUrban == code for Minority.
Suburban == code for White.
The vote in Missouri == RAAAAACISM!!!
/NAACP mode: off
jakee308 (e1996a) — 8/4/2010 @ 1:59 amJakee308 your equation needs a little adjusting
Urban = minority + liberal jerkoffs
Mike Myers (3c9845) — 8/4/2010 @ 2:22 amSuburban = plain folks
As one of the white suburbanites that was part of the 75% that voted for Prop C, I gladly celebrate being part of the racist fringe in Missouri. We all know that the 25% that support Obamacare are the smartest people in the world because they can read the secret message in the proposition where it really says this was a vote against a black man and nothing more.
MU789 (d6061a) — 8/4/2010 @ 4:13 amClearly, this result shows how disgusted the public still is with the failed economic policies of the Bush Administration.
Official Democratic Talking Points (6f6c60) — 8/4/2010 @ 5:51 amEveryone always talks about red State vs blue States.
Isn’t it more accurate to talk about urban vs everywhere else?
Yes, pretty much. There are some exceptions – Vermont is very liberal but not urban. But the cities are always vote liberal to left.
Which is one more reason why immigration is a bad thing.
Subotai (fec082) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:09 amEver watch Cops? Urbanites from Kansas City and St. Louis always need to have what they are saying displayed as text at the bottom of the screen. The reason they voted against the measure was they don’t speak and possibly understand english.
PatriotRider (17f47b) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:09 amIs this a proven racist report? I guess it is unpopular because they are against a black man. If you will just open your minds on this proposal.
Erica (fc105c) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:10 amI am shocked and saddened to see that 80% of all missourians are racist. /sarcasm
actually guys, is this really the best strategy? shouldn’t we instead do all we can to keep the dems from waking up and noticing they are headed for a cliff.
sure, spend even more. run on obamacare. now it has been passed, we love it. and above all else, just keep calling everyone who opposes these policies racist. as you can see, its working like a charm.
Aaron Worthing (A.W.) (e7d72e) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:15 amWhen your opponent is in the process of shooting himself, never stand between him and the gun.
AD - RtR/OS! (88472e) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:21 amWould be interesting to see the minority voting on this – elderly voting, male/female breakdown
Its rare that 3 outof 4 people agree on anything
EricPWJohnson (0f0a26) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:43 amThere won’t be any spin, they just won’t report it. It never happened.
Mr Pink (d5777e) — 8/4/2010 @ 6:54 amVermont is very liberal but not urban.
The residents of Vermont are all government employees or retired New Yorkers. When I lived in New Hampshire, it was referred to as the Peoples Republic of Vermont. The most amusing part was that all Vermonters did their shopping in New Hampshire. No sales tax, you know.
Mike K (0ef8c3) — 8/4/2010 @ 7:05 amI think a 41% approval rating is sky high and nothing to give the opposition any encouragement. It scares me to think that 41% of the people in this country think that the mess this president is creating is something to approve of. I can only blame it on the entitlement mentality and urban public education.
quasimodo (4af144) — 8/4/2010 @ 8:00 amAt what point can they call themselves JournoLists without laughing?
JD (c13155) — 8/4/2010 @ 8:04 amJD
well, there is a world of difference between a journalist, and a journolist. So if you are a journolist, you are probably not a real journalist.
Aaron Worthing (A.W.) (e7d72e) — 8/4/2010 @ 8:54 amAlso you could ask for either D or R ballot or just an issues ballot. So basically an open primary with the issues (local and state)on both ballots.
I’m sure that there were independents like me that did not vote in either primary, although if it had been anywhere near close between Carnahan and her opponent I probably would have voted in the D primary against Carnahan.
rls (4d5160) — 8/4/2010 @ 9:45 amPer Ace, if you assume every person who voted in the Republican primary voted yes and that every person who only voted in the Prop C race voted yes then at least 40,000 democrat primary voters voted against it.
Have Blue (854a6e) — 8/4/2010 @ 9:49 amHow partisan is politico.com and slate.com? So partisan that they don’t have anything about the victory vote against Obamacare, but they do have stories up about Prop 8 being overturned.
Slate and Politico do not practice “journalism”. They are fronts for the Democratic Party.
Brad (d272f3) — 8/4/2010 @ 4:43 pmfourth estate become
ColonelHaiku (1baff7) — 8/4/2010 @ 4:50 pmfifth column long time ago
need wall to line up
Missouri Big ACORN Country!
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/4/2010 @ 5:06 pmEveryone always talks about red State vs blue States. Isn’t it more accurate to talk about urban vs everywhere else?
Is there any large urban area anywhere in America whose electorate tilts mostly to the right, or is even truly centrist? Not that I’m aware of.
As for the demographics of most large cities, particularly their oldest sections, heavily made up of black and Latinos, I’ve long wondered what such areas would be like if their populace were 80 to 90 percent conservative to moderate instead of mostly liberal to ultra-liberal.
I bet various forms of dysfunction and decay would decrease and various forms of stability and economic health would increase.
Mark (411533) — 8/4/2010 @ 11:01 pm