Emanuel Cleaver: “The people fought back and won.”

So that's not right.

We can be mad, we can cuss - we're three votes down. That's the reality.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.

Despite the cynical and deeply shameful attempt to silence many of our neighbors, the people fought back and won.