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Old 10-05-2006, 10:27 AM
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Default Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?

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So it makes no difference to you/us if all senators are for prohibiting internet gambling, some are and some are not, or a few are or most are? It makes no difference to us which senators support bans on internet gambling and which senators are against it?

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bkholdem,

His perspective accounts for the fact that there are two steps:

(1) Get it to the floor in a given form
(2) Vote

(Step 1) is done by only the most determined, and when done right, as by Frist, it makes Step 2 a nonissue. This is why pork passes that would normally be voted down 93-7.

As far as the OP, I think I see what he's getting at, and I think it's a given that the direct approach, a tidal wave of popularity, won't work.
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