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With only a 23% turnout, Republicans tout Missouri primary vote against health care law

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser, 8/4/10

Washington (CNN) - National Republicans are touting a primary result in Missouri where voters overwhelmingly rejected a key controversial part of the new health care law. But Democrats downplay the significance of the vote, the first in which the new health care law was on a ballot.

More than 70 percent of Missouri primary voters Tuesday cast ballots in favor of Proposition C. The measure would allow state residents to opt out of mandatory health insurance, a key part of the new health care reform law, which was pushed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats. The proposition prohibits the federal government from requiring people to have health insurance or penalizing them for not having insurance.

Of course, states have no power to regulate the federal government, but that fact is lost on Mr. Steele & Missouri's Republicans, too.


Video: On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren/Fox News

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Audio Embed: Dave Ross, KIRO-FM/Seattle, 8/4/10.