Senate vote: Cloture motion // December 4, 2010Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. No. 4728

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. No. 4728
Creator: Spoken For

37 votes, representing 64,715,393 peopleof U.S. adults

53 votes, representing 133,608,080 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 15.5% 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 22.4 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	37	27.6%
Yea	Lost	53	56.9%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	15.5%

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