ballot measure is going to pass, but even with those predictions and even though the voting was in an off year, it failed in mississippi, too. mississippi rejected personhood once after colorado rejected it twice. and then a sort of an amazing thing happened. the national republican party decided after that track record in the polls, we should have it for the whole country. the personhood initiative that was widely rejected even by mississippi voters, the banning of not only all abortion in all circumstances, but also the most popular forms of birth control in the country, the national republican party decided they wanted that as federal law. in 2012, while running for president, newt gingrich and rick santorum and rick perry all attended a candidates forum sponsored by personhood usa, and at that forum, they all signed a pledge to pursue this personhood thing at the federal level. the republican party's eventual presidential candidate, mitt romney, he didn't attention that candidates forum, but when he