Michael Barone applies his number-crunching skills in his latest Washington Examiner piece to assess Thursday’s House vote on the “Slaughter Solution.”
An analysis of the votes cast for and against the rule, together with an examination of members? public statements and political situations, suggests that the House leadership is still significantly short of 216 votes on final passage, and that opponents of the view have a reservoir of potential noes from more than the 38 Democrats needed to defeat the measure.
