So, the Senate "narrowly" advanced ENDA

[cthulu2016]

That is how it was reported on CNN.

It was a cloture vote, and thus required 60 votes. Unconstitutional in my view of things, but it is what it is. And debate on the bill was closed by a narrow margin, in that there were 61 votes to let th bill go forward.

But the vote was 61-30.

Which is not really all that "narrow."

There has to be some way of describing a better than two-to-one margin as something other than "narrow."

Perhaps, "the widely supported ENDA bill narrowly cleared an effort by 30 Republican Senators to obstruct the bill's passage."

[BlueCaliDem]

1. CNN = Conservative News Network.

Now they're trying to frame the narrative that 60 is the new 50. Effing corporate tools.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Did CNN report the vote total (61-30)? n/t

[pinboy3niner]

3. The 7 Republicans who voted with Dems:

Ayotte (NH)
Collins (ME)
Hatch (UT)
Heller (NV)
Kirk (IL)
Portman (OH)
Toomey (PA)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00229#position

[PeteSelman]

4. 2 less and it would have failed.

It is a narrow pass. The rules are fucked up but the statement isn't wrong.

[gopiscrap]

5. yeah, I love the way they slant the news...

[2naSalit]

6. Interestingly

It seems two of the Senators who were planning to vote for it were caught on planes and not sure they could make it in time to vote so other Rs were recruited and, amazingly, there were some who agreed to vote for it.
I don't know whether the two made it from the airport or not but it passed in the Senate, not so likely in the House this year.

Edited to add: I see from the post above that the two did not make it to vote and so that means that there would have been two other votes or perhaps a smaller margin had they made it... they recruiting effort might not have been implemented or it may have and the two could have arrived just in time to vote and made it +2. So the three who were recruited were Sens. Ayotte, POrtman and Toomey. Sen. Murkowski and another (can't recall who as the name was not mentioned and I didn't recognize them on sight in the news clip.

I saw this on one of the MSNBC shows this evening but can't locate the video now. I don't like the new web site, it doesn't allow you to site or paste in segments of shows for reference... unless you have some social media account (which I don't) or "sign in" to their web site which I am not willing to do. I think it was on "All In".