Yahoo Watch: Catholic Key

by Michael Sean Winters on Aug. 04, 2010

Over at the Catholic Key Blog, editor Jack Smith is so ecstatic at the passage of Proposition C in yesterday’s primary election in Missouri, that he didn’t even have a chance to spell check his article: He writes “annectdotally” with an extra “n” and an extra “t.”

But, while he gives a bunch of reference point so show that the 667,680 people who voted for Prop C is really an overwhelming rejection of the health care reforms mandates, he fails to note one salient point. The population of Missouri is 5,987,580, so a little more than 10 percent of Missourians voted against the mandates. This result came in a special election in which those in favor of the health care bill saw little motivation to vote, knowing that the issue of the mandates will be resolved in the courts, not by primary voters in Missouri. That is some “annectdote.”

I'm willing to bet that, had

Submitted by Pete the greek (not verified) on Aug. 04, 2010.

I'm willing to bet that, had the vote gone the other way, michael's entire thesis would be different. He would be the first on these pages to crow about how it was a resounding confirmation of Obamacare instead of a mere annectdote.

"knowing that the issue of the mandates will be resolved in the courts, not by primary voters in Missouri."
You give them far too much credit. Most people don't care about much of anything to vote. Trying to pass their lack of presence at the polls off as a demonstration of sage reasoning is silly. They simply didn't care enough to go. Period.

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