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So I've been playing around with some numbers and it seems to me that provided nothing major happens, like someone getting caught with a 'wide stance' (knock on wood) we would be one vote away from passing the DA.

Here's how I figure:

Members who voted yea and are still with us (44):

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Members who voted yea but are now gone ( 8 ):

Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Craig (R-ID)
Hagel (R-NE)
Lott (R-MS)
Obama (D-IL)
Salazar (D-CO)

Members who didn't vote, but would vote yea this time around (15):

Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Merkley (D-OR)
Begich (D-AK)
Burris (D-IL)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Bennet (D-CO)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Boxer (D-CA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Kennedy (D-MA)

So that's 52-8+15= 59 which means that we'd only need one more senator to vote yea.

I guess that vote could come from Landrieu, McCaskill, McCain, Specter, Graham, Baucus or Sessions (hahaha just kidding)

What do you think?

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I think McCain might vote for us...

but how sure are you about that 59 vote? That sounds pretty darn good...

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Kinda too close for comfort.

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I'm pretty sure. None of the new senators campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform and as for the other 3 who didn't vote last time it was because they weren't in town.

Re: 1 vote.
 

Also, I just read on another thread that Landrieu is now part of the senate hispanic taskforce so that should really help.

Oh and McCaskill is now a co-sponsor of the CIR bill if I remember correctly.

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is still to close!!!!

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How are you getting your numbers? It seems that you assume thta all of the democrats will vote for it. When you assume you make an ass out of u and me.

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lol my high school english teacher used to say this a lot.

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Obama should have replaced that one republican he appointed into his cabinet with a democrat. :-| John Stewart called him a p*ssy for not doing so...lol

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I"m sure gregg stated that he would've rejected the position, had it affected the balance of power in the senate.