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Lunar
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« on: May 29, 2009, 05:41:49 AM »
« edited: May 29, 2009, 01:51:41 PM by Lunar »
We have to see how things develop, but on a random but bold guess, these guys will vote against the filibuster or at least not vote for it:


Lugar,
Snowe,
Collins,
Cornyn,
hmm
Burr,
Murkowsk,
Gregg,
Corker,
Alexander
Graham
Hatch
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 11:12:57 AM »
« Edited: July 14, 2009, 11:14:29 AM by Lunar »
Cornyn is not a "100% hell no" vote.  He's the head of the NRSC and seems to take that job more seriously than he takes his own job as Senator, as of late.

I have a similarly hard time believing McCain has a small tilt to voting "yes" given his current worship of his left-over mailing list from 2008 or Hutchison who has a Republican primary she's trying to win against Perry.
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2009, 10:17:05 AM »
Lugar is now a confirmed yes.

Republican playmakers privately predict 8-12 Republicans will vote for her...
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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2009, 02:06:05 AM »
Crist is an interesting hypothetical "no" vote, considering the importance of his state's Hispanic population and his Hispanic primary opponent.
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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2009, 07:53:55 PM »
Graham...wow
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« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2009, 07:09:26 AM »
Indeed, people are overestimating how much everyday Latino voters are counting who votes how.  The vote could be subject to some Spanish-language ads, that, like any ad, could push the margins around a little, but not a lot.  Hispanic advocacy organizations aren't going to change their endorsements, but some GOP partisan groups, Hispanic and non-Hispanic, will be seeing who's got their back, but really it's not going to matter in all but the closest of races.

It's what the GOP does, or doesn't do, en masse, that matters
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« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2009, 10:47:46 PM »
Quote from: px75 on July 25, 2009, 10:00:41 AM
Well, maybe this won't be THE vote that will turn Latinos even more against the Republicans and Cornyn in particular (even though the Hispanic Republican operatives in Texas disagree).
But if you want to reclaim their votes, you got to start from somewhere.

And what better place to start than voting to confirm the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.
An eminently qualified nominee with a compelling life story and a mainstream record, who got through her confirmation hearings with no missteps.
What they did instead was to put a bunch of old white guys, with someone like Sessions of all people leading the charge, to show their hostility and condescension to her.

In that aspect I believe that Hatch's non-explanation explanation for his vote is rather revealing.   

indeed, hell, even the Chamber of Congress endorsed her, but the GOP still has to balance their Pat Buchanans with their ... uh... Diaz-Balarts?
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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 09:47:31 PM »
Vitter's the biggest surprise so far. 
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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2009, 01:25:42 AM »
Nelson will vote yes, he just doesn't want to look like he's gung-ho, understandably.

I expected more than low end of Republicans to get behind her, I'm rather surprised.  Even most GOP strategists had initially predicted 8-12
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2009, 06:29:58 AM »
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/baucus-says-he-has-no-idea-how-hell-vote-on-sotomayor-2009-07-30.html

c'mon Max, let's not dick around
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