It is amazing, 72% of the people in Missouri voted to repeal Obamacare, 79% in Cape Girardeau County, which is my county. This is stunning news to a lot of people. Cannot believe this happened. The political class, the ruling class inside the Beltway is in a state of denial about this as is the partisan political operative media, and this is the closest indication we’ve had to a public poll on this. This is called a landslide, folks, 71, 72%.
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RUSH: I’m noticing during the commercial breaks that State-Controlled Media, partisan political operatives, the left, the Democrat Party is trying to spin the Missouri results. Well, of course a bunch of Republicans, a bunch of Tea Party people showed up. What would you expect? This is nothing earth-shattering. Well, well, well. So they are already trying to spin this huge defeat for Obama as no big deal, it’s just the extremists in the Tea Party. So we’ll have to set that straight.
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RUSH: Now the regime has been given a huge wake-up call in Missouri, and they and their partisan political operatives in the media are trying to spin this. Of course, of course it’s just a bunch of Republicans showing up. We know this is going to happen in November. The Republicans are far more energized. It’s just these Tea Party extremists. No, no, no. More people showed up to vote yesterday than have showed up in Republican and Democrat primary elections. Missouri is a ‘Show-Me’ state and they showed people. That’s all you need to know about Missouri or Missourah, depending on your preference. Seventy-two percent voted to get rid of, repeal, to state their opposition. McCain only carried Missouri by 1 percentage point, 50-49%. It took ten days to finally count that. Don’t tell me that this is just the Tea Party showing up to vote. This is Democrats showing up to vote. This is independents showing up to say ‘We don’t want this. We don’t want any part of Obamacare.’
Later in the New York Times story it says: ‘For some, the outcome was not merely about health care, but about the role of states in setting policy. ‘This really wasn’t an effort to poke the president in the eye,’ said State Senator Jim Lembke, a Republican. ‘First and foremost, this was about defining the role of state government and the role of federal government. Whether it’s here in Missouri with health care or in Arizona with illegal immigration, the states are going to get together on this now.” The states are the last line of defense against this encroaching federal agenda. Yeah, it was a poke in the eye, but what Senator Lembke is saying is that it wasn’t an effort to poke. He’s right. He’s saying, ‘We didn’t do this just to embarrass Obama. We did this because we mean it.’ But it ends up being a poke in the eye. They didn’t do it for spite. They did it because they genuinely don’t like it.
Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com, this is the full quote from his analysis: ‘Bear in mind that over 315,000 Democrats turned out to cast ballots in the primary that nominated Robin Carnahan, while over 577,000 Republicans hit the polls. That is about a 65/35 split — which means that a significant amount of Democrats either supported the ballot measure repudiating Obamacare, or didn’t bother to cast a vote to defend the program. Actually, Prop C got more votes than the combined voting in both Senate primaries — which tells us something even more about the passion in the electorate,’ over this issue. And the Democrats and the media are trying to spin this as just a Tea Party vote, just a Republican vote. Remember, McCain barely eeked out a one percentage point win in the State of Missouri. So this is a big poke in the eye, whether it was intended to be or not. It’s not just the health care reform. The message here: It’s the socialism, stupid, and we don’t want it.