Steven Taylor (here and here) breaks down the Senate’s party-line vote on the health care bill in some interesting ways. The upshot:
- The 60 Yes votes represented 64.22% of the population
- Only 12 state delegations split their vote: AK, FL, IA, IN, LA, MO, NC, NE, NH, NV, OH, SD (KY’s Jim Bunning, scheduled to retire did not vote)
- Several states did not follow their 2008 presidential vote:
McCain States voting “Yes”: AR, MT, ND, WV
McCain states Split: AK, LA, MO, NE, NH, SD
Obama states voting “No”: ND, ME
Obama states Split: FL, IA, IN, NC, NV, OH
- Here’s how it looks when we break it down based on the year they’re up for re-election:
Yes No 2010 16 17 +1 (not voting) 2012 24 9 2014 20 13 60 40
- Of the 33 seats up in 2010, 9 will be open. Yet all of those Senators still voted along party lines!
