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Bennyoff of sales force said. he says when it comes to this proposition c, its the same two buckets. either for the homeless or for yourself. thats a bold statement but is it fair? >> well, you know, i think -- you you know mark, he likes to put things in those stark terms because hes trying to sell something which is we should pass proposition c. initially he was against it. he wrote a story and changed his mind after studying it a bit. i think i issue, and hes right, were at a stage weve got t...

Do the same? youre joined by john fun in the beautiful city of san diego today. good morning to you, john. >> thank you. >> so on tuesday in missouri, the show me state, essentially they had something on the ballot called proposition c. what it said was -- we do not think that the federal government should mandate that we buy insurance and by an extraordinary margin, by 71% they said federal government get out of our lives. what does this -- regarding this. what does this mean ultimately for peo...

The fourth in the house to lose a primary this year. many ire eyes were on missouri and proposition c. its the nationst first popular vote challenge to the federal health care overhaul. prop c says the government cannot require people to purchase health insurance or punish those who do not buy it voter passed the measure 71 to 25% a landslide. keep in mind many political advisors consider missouri a bellwether state. with that we go to steve brown. steve, some democrats are dismissed prop c as u...

>> lets talk about missouri a little bit, whats called proposition c. its getting a lot of attention. >> yeah. proposition c is about health care. its the first referendum weve seen on the health care law, specifically about whether states like missouri should be required to buy into these individual mandates. the people of missouri have to buy health care reform. thats at the heart of health care. and were going to see now not just polls on this but voters actually voting. all we have are polls...

Proposition c. >> reporter: proposition c would be the first of four opportunities for individual states to put it to their voters on at least a portion of the federal healthcare reform act. now what they are going to do here, voting today, here in missouri, is voting on proposition c which basically challenges the federal mandate, individual mandate that persons buy or have healthcare insurance. if passed it would force the state to reject that particular mandate. there is a huge question as to...

Doing. that is the lowest rating in that poll since president obama took office more than a year and a half ago. the allegations as thin as the paper they are printed on, that from congresswoman maxine waters who is firing back at conflict of interest accusations. the california democrat vowing to fight those ethics charges saying she will be vindicated in an open trial, and she is not about to play, lets make a deal with the house ethics committee. investigators say that waters helped arrange a...

Well, guess what. if its tuesday, somebodys voting somewhere and today less than 24 hours after a virginia judge allowed a legal challenge to health care to go forward health care reform gets the first test at the ballot box. significantly in a swing state. missouri. considering proposition c. it would opt the state out of the health care mandate which requires that americans to pay a fine by 2014 if they dont purchase health insurance. the results of the vote could send political shockwaves aro...