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Can Cap & Trade Get Through The Senate?

By The Daily Dish
Jul 6 2009, 3:22 AM ET

Nate Silver analyzes:

Although the model considers only 52 Senators to be more likely than not to vote for the bill, there are somewhere between 62-66 votes that are perhaps potentially in play. But Joe Mauer-like precision will be required in targeting the undecided, and further compromises would almost certainly be needed, some of them designed to placate as few as one senator. The question is how many ornaments the Democrats could place on the Christmas Tree before it starts to collapse under its own weight.


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