Senate vote: Cloture motion // June 6, 2008Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Boxer Amdt. No. 4825

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Boxer Amdt. No. 4825
Creator: Spoken For

36 votes, representing 66,170,864 peopleof U.S. adults

48 votes, representing 124,244,403 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 17.1% 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 21.2 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	36	28.8%
Yea	Lost	48	54.1%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	17.1%

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