Senate vote: Cloture motion // March 20, 2012Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Reed Amdt. No. 1833

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Reed Amdt. No. 1833
Creator: Spoken For

45 votes, representing 96,493,843 peopleof U.S. adults

54 votes, representing 138,280,815 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 2.0% 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 9.7 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	45	40.3%
Yea	Lost	54	57.7%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	2.0%

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