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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wonder if Collins would have had the deciding
Vote ... the 67th vote essentially... if she would have voted for conviction. I think she would not have voted for conviction in that instance.
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I wonder if Collins would have had the deciding (Original Post)
ALBliberal
Feb 2021
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rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)1. Where are you getting these numbers from? n/t
ALBliberal
(2,304 posts)3. I edited out last part. Thanks for the heads up.
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)4. Thank you. n/t
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. Yep. It was easy to vote against trump when you know the outcome.
hot2na
(353 posts)5. In the words of the great Harry Reid regarding Susan Collins
"You can always count on her vote when you don't need it".
She has never made a consequential vote in her phony moderate career.
It does help in this case that we can at least say that it was the biggest bipartisan vote for impeachment in history. But let's not fool ourselves into thinking that she would have cast the deciding vote.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)6. She did vote for conviction
She was among the 7 Republicans. They would have needed 10 more