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

The U.S. falls short of this goal.

Activate to continue

Spoken For.
House vote: H.R. 4425 // February 22, 2010Needed two-thirds to pass

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2-116th Street in North Troy, New York, as the “Martin G. ’Marty’ Mahar Post Office”

Sponsor: Paul Tonko (D-NY)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2-116th Street in North Troy, New York, as the "Martin G. 'Marty' Mahar Post Office."

Government Operations and Politics Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

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

Won the vote · Yea

330 votes, representing 178,380,861 people76.0%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Nay

0 votes, representing 0 people0.0%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 24.0% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
YeaWon33076.0%
NayLost00.0%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken024.0%