In a perfect democracy, at least 50% of people would support every decision.

The U.S. falls short of this goal.

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Spoken For.
House vote: H.Res. 327 // April 24, 2007

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 362) to authorize science scholarships for educating mathematics and science teachers, and for other purposes

Sponsor: Peter Welch (D-VT)

Sets forth the rule for consideration of H.R. 362 (10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act ).

Congress Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Yea

220 votes, representing 111,782,945 people49.2%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Nay

188 votes, representing 101,526,887 people44.7%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 6.1% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House. The winning side fell 0.8 points short of a majority of the country.
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
YeaWon22049.2%
NayLost18844.7%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken06.1%