Senate vote: S. 2578 // July 16, 2014Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.2578

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.2578
Creator: Spoken For

43 votes, representing 96,712,642 peopleof U.S. adults

56 votes, representing 147,467,525 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 0.2% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the Senate. The winning side fell 10.5 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	43	39.5%
Yea	Lost	56	60.3%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	0.2%

Senate This side won even though more senators, and more Americans, voted the other way. Ending debate needed 60 votes here, not a majority.

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