McCain voted NO just so you know
“McCain voted no”
There were two key votes. The first key vote allows the nomination to go forward for a vote. Otherwise it never get’s to the floor. It was being held up. Remember the vote some days ago where the Republicans kept this nomination from being voted on, by largely sticking together and the Dems/Media called it a filibuster??
Well, that same procedure happened again, and McCain, Graham and the lot of them that voted no before on procedure, this time voted yes. That allowed the nomination vote to proceed. McCain voted yes on that, knowing that when it was voted on, it would pass. He knew how his fellow senators would vote and that it would get the necessary votes. So then on the final vote he voted no, so he could say he strongly opposed Hagel because he was the wrong man for the job.
If the Republicans had held together in opposing the vote, they could have kept this from ever being voted on.