Most People Don't Know About The Legislative Process

False impressions of the Senate legislative process, as it relates to the health care bill, are evidently rampant: Pew finds in its latest News IQ survey (taken before Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts) that 26% of respondents know that it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster, and 32% knew that the Senate passed its version of health care reform without a single GOP vote (13% thought five GOP senators voted for it; 8% thought 10 voted for it; another 8% thought 20 voted for it). 25% think it takes a simple majority of 51 votes to break a filibuster.