YES BUT...can McConnell hold them all in line? Susan Collins said AFTER the letter was released she would still vote to repeal DADT if Reid allowed amendments. And Lugar and Bennett have said they will vote YES on the DREAM Act. So this letter may be all hat no cattle.
In practice, we have a lot of virtual Democrats in the Senate.
I count Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Dick Lugar, the defeated Bob Bennett and Lindsay Graham among them ( and I’m sure I’ve missed several other names ).