LAT Writer Declines to Give Details on Huge Defeat of ObamaCare by Missouri 'Republican Voters'

NewsBusters ^ | August 4, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Wouldn't you say that an important part of any election story would be the numbers involved, especially in the case of landslides? Perhaps someone should give a heads up on this to Los Angeles Times writer Noam N. Levey of the Times' Tribune Washington bureau. Although he does report that Missouri voters, whom he labels as "Republican voters," voted to approve Proposition C yesterday which challenged ObamaCare's requirement that Americans must purchase health insurance, the all important margin of the lopsided victory was noticeable by its absence. Reading Levey's article you wouldn't know if Proposition C was approved by 51 or 52 percent of Missouri voters or was the actual figure so much higher that Levey found it painful to relay that information?

Reporting from Washington — Striking a largely symbolic blow at President Obama's healthcare overhaul, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure Tuesday challenging the new law's requirement that Americans buy health insurance starting in 2014.

The proposition, which sought to deny the federal government the authority to penalize people for not getting insurance, is expected to have little practical effect on implementation of the healthcare law.

But the Missouri measure represented the first electoral test for the landmark legislation that Obama signed in March. And it underscored continued hostility to the law from Republican voters.

[PJ-Comix]

The landslide margin that was too painful to speak its name.

[misharu]

And it underscored continued hostility to the law from Republican voters.

Wow! And to think I voted for it and I am registered Democrat in Missouri. That is how I am registered, but I am actually an Indpendent Conservative that caucuses with the Republicans.

[Turbo Pig]

Here are some telling numbers about the vote here last night. There were around 930K votes cast on Prop C (either Y or N), and there were only about 850K cast for all the Congressional races (both Repub and Dem). So somewhere around 70K-80K people showed up just to cast a vote on Prop C, which passed overwhelmingly.

The question isn’t why did so many people turn out to pass Prop C, but rather if so many people want obamacare, why didn’t they turn out is droves to ensure Prop C’s defeat?

[spintreebob]

667,680 voted Yes on Prop C
674,548 was the TOTAL vote for Carnahan and Blunt combined. So almost at many people voted for C as for the other two.

The total vote (Y and N) on Prop C was 928,782 while the total vote for US Senate was 898,784.

264,546 people who voted for Prop C (28%) voted for NOTA (None of the above) for US Senate. That is the truly alienated vote who doesn’t even trust a tea party backed candidate like Blunt.

Nationwide that 28% who vote, but not where it counts, are the vote that is up for grabs in the general election.

[9YearLurker]

Noam seems to be a liberal name. ;-)

[Buckeye McFrog]

can you imagine the panic that must be going on inside the WH Situation Room this morning?

[theBuckwheat]

Of Missouri’s 114 counties, only 2 voted No. Those two were the counties of the parasitic classes. One county in northern Missouri voted 89.2% Yes.

I have never seen such a broad expression of the voter’s opinion. This vote is historic. It will result in historic spin of the leftist denial machine.

Here is the official map of the vote:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrmaps/20100803/ballot_Issue_map.asp?eid=256&oTypeID=20&Tuesday,%20August%2003,%202010

[SoFloFreeper]

How amusing...the media is bascially IGNORING this story.

Keep it up, Drive Bys. You’re diggin’ your own grave(s).

[MrB]

The fact that more people showed up to vote for prop C than did for the senate race puts the lie to the liberal spin that the republican senate race was what drove the vote on prop C.

[Cboldt]

-- Keep it up, Drive Bys. You're diggin' your own grave(s). --

They are following the Won's parable, believing that they can dig their way out of the hole they are in.

[AndyJackson]

Those two were the counties of the parasitic classes

I am so jealous that you only have two parasitic counties in a large state. I live in DC, where we are all parasites. Some are parasites on parasites on parasites, but that is what we do for a living here.

[kevkrom]

Of Missouri’s 114 counties, only 2 voted No. Those two were the counties of the parasitic classes.

And even then, neither got to 60% "no".

[truthandlife]

It doesn’t matter. The Dinosaur Media is extinct. Drudge is leading front and center and the Dinosaur Media will watch the parade go on by.

[relictele]

I’ll bet money his parents named him after Chomsky (know any other Noams?) and nomenclature was destiny in this case.

[9YearLurker]

You’re probably right.

[flowerplough]

An assumption, but his name tell me he’s likely Jewish, and, don’t ask me why, but big-city Jews (and is there any other kind?) often need to denigrate rural folk and they seem to desparately long for bigger government and higher taxes.

Why are Jews Liberals, by Norman Podhoretz

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGdFyobllMX00BGvNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcWtvMXYwBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0Y2NTRfMTEz/SIG=13cpj7nqp/EXP=1281015848/**http%3a//doubleday.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/09/08/why-are-jews-liberal-by-norman-podhoretz/

[kabar]

The cities of St Louis and Kansas City voted no, but even the NO vote didn’t reach 60%.

[who knows what evil?]

Wonder what cute name ‘Journolist’ is operating under now?

[Steely Tom]

The landslide margin that was too painful to speak its name.

You have to remember that the LA Times, like other big-city newspapers, numbers many among its readership who are, shall we say, of uncertain mental health. This constituency must be told the truth of what's going on around them, but only after an emollient cocoon can be fashioned around it, to protect their ...ahem... metastable personalities.

The liberal "hive" has not yet concocted such a cocoon for the events in Missouri, and Mr. Levey is on his own for now. He obviously felt it best to simply omit the details of last night's election until he is given guidance from the "hive" brain-trust.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Wonder what cute name ‘Journolist’ is operating under now?”

They are now called Cronkites.