The Show-Me Vote

Published August 4, 2010 4:00pm ET



It’s hard to get more than 70 percent of Americans to agree on anything, but 71 percent of Missourians voted yesterday for a referendum opposing the centerpiece of President Obama’s signature legislative initiative. In the first official vote by the American public on Obamacare, Show-Me state voters showed President Obama they don’t much like Obamacare’s individual mandate – that all Americans must buy health insurers’ product under penalty of law. 

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