[kitkat]

As I just told Gretchen, the Senate vote was 63 to 37. I'm glad not ALL the senators are to blame.

[Just A Nobody]

Ooooops, should have copied you on my reply. Thanks for the info.

[maica]

Pundits keep quoting that a majority of Americans are in favor of government funded embryonic stem cell research, but Taranto put the names of some Senators and how they voted in his commentary today.

We do wonder, though, if this really is as winning an issue as Bush's foes think it is. Of the five Republican senators generally considered vulnerable in November, only Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island voted "yes." Jim Talent of Missouri, Conrad Burns of Montana, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania all voted against the bill, as did Jon Kyl of Arizona and George Allen of Virginia, whom the most optimistic Democrats also think they have a chance of defeating. Only one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted "no," and he also is up for re-election this year and is regarded as vulnerable.

Some of these Senators would have voted "no" even if they were not up for reelection, but some may be responding to their constituents.