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

Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Reid Amdt No. 3983

Name: Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Reid Amdt No. 3983
Creator: Spoken For

41 votes, representing 83,101,578 peopleof U.S. adults

58 votes, representing 144,160,142 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.0% 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 13.8 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	41	36.2%
Yea	Lost	58	62.8%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.0%

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