[Cboldt]

By my calculation, we have only 54 committed YEAS. Four Republicans have NOT committed to Alito yet. Rinos Snowe and Collins of Maine, Chafee of Rhode Island and Stevens of Alaska.

But all of them would vote for cloture, regardless of their position on the nomination. The rough calculation for cloture is to take the GOP as given, and add DEMs who will vote for the nominee.

[Grendel9]

The Democrats have 31 votes against him now.
If the remaining 11 Dems vote against him,
it's all over for Alito. Now, there is a
move to filibuster by the Dems. Frist just
announced it.
They're going to Cloture on the 31st.
It's all over today.