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Congratulations to Robin Carnahan, whom Missourians enthusiastically re-elected yesterday with 1,743,819 votes - more votes than any Missouri candidate in history!

Way to go, Robin.  We’re all proud of the great work you are doing for our state and for all of us.

1. Check on your registration status before you vote.  You can check registration status at:  www.GoVoteMissouri.com   Find your polling place here as well.
2. Review Secretary Carnahan’s “Do’s and Don’t’s”  of voting: http://www.sos.mo.gov/news.asp?id=750
3. Utilize voter protection hotlines if you have problems on Election Day.         

• Democratic voter protection hotline:  1-877-MOchange
• Office of Secretary of State hotline: 1-800-NOW-VOTE
• 866-OUR-VOTE hotline – non-partisan voter protection hotline­

Jean Carnahan and Jan Polizzi joined health policy expert Peter Harbage to highlight a new report released today by the Center for American Progress Action Fund that shows that Senator John McCain’s proposed health care plan would threaten the employer-based health benefits of 3.2 million people in Missouri and that as many as 400,000 Missourians could lose their health coverage.  These findings, confirmed by the Economic Policy Institute, were compounded by the fact that the McCain health care plan would amount to a tax increase for middle class families in Missouri, with the average family paying almost $540 more in taxes by 2013.  In Missouri, Sen. McCain’s plan would:  Story Continued »