Senate vote: Amendment // May 5, 2009

DeMint Amdt. No. 1026

Name: DeMint Amdt. No. 1026
Creator: Spoken For

59 votes, representing 153,336,337 peopleof U.S. adults

36 votes, representing 70,660,087 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 3.5% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	59	66.1%
Yea	Lost	36	30.5%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	3.5%

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