The "Show Me State's" location in Mid-America, a "swing" region in national races, intensified the sudden campaign frenzy in Missouri.

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In August, citizens of the Show Me State voted by 71% for the ALEC-backed legislation opposing the ObamaCare mandate to buy health insurance.

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Leaving Missouri for Florida, you mark down your 183 days while in Naples, and the Show Me State may leave you alone.

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Thank you, Missouri, for being the Show Me State.

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Missouri is the Show-Me State, but it is also the Show-You State in leading by example, working hard for its own and giving generously to others.

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He covers the initiative petition process, state government leadership, and incentive structures for entrepreneurship from his Show-Me State base in Missouri.

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Why does the Show-Me State not want its teachers friending their flocks?

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It makes little sense, for instance, to try a case in Missouri of two New Yorkers who get into a car accident in New York: neither the parties nor the dispute in this example have any connections to the Show-Me state.

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Case in point: The Show-Me-State of Missouri has been thrown onto the national stage this week in ways that few progressives or conservatives might have imagined.

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