Posted on 11/12/2009 4:22:19 AM PST by brianr10
Well, that’s a big difference. That would have meant that #218 would have been the decisive vote and it would have gone down without him or her. A bit more pressure when you need one person to step up and basically serve as the fall guy. Maybe a few more people get cold feet in that situation. Maybe the GOP could have held Cao if he could have been the difference in stopping it. I suspect once it became clear it was going to pass they let him go. But if they needed his vote to stop it, things may have turned out differently.
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