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To: Grampa Dave; All

NRO says he is actually just undecided. He will thus likely vote yes.

Ryan indicates this is close, which is bad news for us. As opposed to having to win tons of votes, the other side only has to win a few.

““It’s a coin toss,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to National Review Online. “We were just on the floor going through whip-check. They still aren’t there yet. It’s narrowed down, from what we can tell, to four or five. Obviously, the numbers favor them, if you compare the pool of undecided votes to how many they need to come over. They only need about 50 percent of the remaining undecideds to break their way. On our side, we need seven votes to defeat this. At this point, we’re really only talking about a handful of votes. It’s such a close situation, and very, very fluid. They don’t want to win by just one vote — with everyone cast as the tiebreaking vote — they want to win by two or three votes. That’ll be hard to do, as will muscling votes in these final hours, since everyone is watching.”

A few votes can be easily bought.

Thus, it is very likely this passes Sunday.

Keep the calls going....maybe we will get a miracle.


48 posted on 03/19/2010 12:44:04 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: rwfromkansas
Non-stop Rosary vigil to defeat ObamaCare (pray with other FReepers!)
49 posted on 03/19/2010 12:49:17 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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