[deport]

A split could have given Pelosi a chance...scary as he$$.

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Possible but I don’t think it was very likely. Some of those split votes would have
had to cross over and vote for Pelosi in order for her to gain the 50% +1 needed. As long
as the GOP votes didn’t cross over they could have voted for 216 different poeple and
Pelosi wouldn’t have won.

[Kackikat]

She got 162 or 165 votes, and if there was chaos and a revote that split the Republican vote three ways and five to ten wild cards like happened, and she still got her same votes, well...never say never.

[deport]

Final vote tally

Boehner       216
Pelosi        164
Other/present  29
Not voting     25 .. (20D - 5R)