Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120418:04:42:00
Look at this in missouri. 76%. 76 voted yes. this was on the ballot in the midterm elections in 2006. missouri voters voting three to one for three things. raise minimum wage in their state from 5.15 to 6.25 an hour or the federal minimum wage. they voted to institute an annual cost of living increase for anybody making the minimum wage so it goes up with inflation. with those huge majority for raising the minimum wage. what else happened in missouri that same year. that same year, democrat claire unseated a republican incumbent senator. she was an emphatic supporter of the minimum wage ballot...