Senate vote: Amendment // March 13, 2008

Sanders Amdt. No. 4218

Name: Sanders Amdt. No. 4218
Creator: Spoken For

55 votes, representing 104,978,165 peopleof U.S. adults

43 votes, representing 121,569,008 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.4% 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 4.3 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	55	45.7%
Yea	Lost	43	52.9%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.4%

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