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Bennyoff of sales force said. he says when it comes to this proposition c, it's the same two buckets. either for the homeless or for yourself. that's 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 he's 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 he's right, we're at a stage we've got to do something about it. what's interesting here is the mayor is not for proposition c because...

Do the same? you're 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 people who have been supporting health care reform? >> i think it sends a chill up their spine because...

The fourth in the house to lose a primary this year. many ire eyes were on missouri and proposition c. it's 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 unconstitutional and a political stunt if nothing else. that doesn't seem to be true for all democra...

>> let's talk about missouri a little bit, what's called proposition c. it's getting a lot of attention. >> yeah. proposition c is about health care. it's the first referendum we've 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. that's at the heart of health care. and we're going to see now not just polls on this but voters actually voting. all we have are polls and take a look at ours. we asked last month should congress repeal the health care bill and...

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 whether or not it's constitutional, but critics of the healthcare plan, critics of the obama admini...