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Collins and Murkowski are both pro-choice. It was remarkable that Collins supported Kavanaugh, and I suspect that had the democrats not overplayed their hand, she would have voted no on that nomination. Schumer turned the battle into such a dishonest, vicious hatefest that Collins voted yes as a protest. I wouldn't expect that to happen twice.

We can only lose one more of the squishes. If we lose two, we will need a democrat to cross over. It would be a genuine profiles in courage moment if a sincerely pro-life democrat rose to the occasion, but I don't see any likely prospects. Most of the dems are abortion fanatics, and any democrat who switched at this time would be ending his career.

I suspect McConnell already knows the outcome. Either he will hold 50 or he will bring the vote to the floor knowing he will lose just to put people on the record. He owes that much to the base and he knows it.

The only two Democrats who might cross over would be the ones in Alabama (Doug Jones) and in West Virginia (Joe Manchin), but Jones may think he is going to lose anyway, and Manchin isn't up for re-election until 2024 so he may figure that how he votes in 2020 will be long forgotten by then.

Eisenhower named a Supreme Court justice in October 1956 when he was running for re-election. Of course there probably weren't a lot of people who expected him to lose to Adlai Stevenson.

We can only lose one more of the squishes. If we lose two, we will need a democrat to cross over. <<<<<<<<

Are you F’in stupid??..Did you read the article????

We just lost Susan!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm voting for Gideon!...She has enough bad baggage we can control here here in Maine!