A Look At The Bailout Vote
Thursday October 9, 2008
The Senate voted 74-25-1 to endorse the Wall Street bailout. I decided to look at the 25 (15 Republicans), to see how many are up for re-election this year. Here's the tally:
Of the 34 Senators running for re-election, only 10 voted "no" on the bailout. Another way to look at the data, of the 25 Senators who voted no, only 10 (not even half) are running for re-election. However, seven of that 10 are Republican, suggesting that they might be more sensitive to the re-election factor than the Democrats.
- Allard (R-CO) - Yes
- Barrasso (R-WY) - Yes
- Brownback (R-KS) - No
- Bunning (R-KY) - No
- Cantwell (D-WA) - No
- Cochran (R-MS) - Yes
- Crapo (R-ID) - No
- DeMint (R-SC) - No
- Dole (R-NC) - Yes
- Dorgan (D-ND) - No
- Enzi (R-WY) - Yes
- Feingold (D-WI) - No
- Inhofe (R-OK) - Yes
- Johnson (D-SD) - Yes
- Landrieu (D-LA) - Yes
- Nelson (D-FL) - No
- Roberts (R-KS) - Yes
- Sanders (I-VT) - No
- Sessions (R-AL) - Yes
- Shelby (R-AL) - No
- Stabenow (D-MI) - No
- Tester (D-MT) - No
- Vitter (R-LA) - No
- Wicker (R-MS) - No
- Wyden (D-OR) - No
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