.MaddowBlog: The idea that there are seven GOP senators ready to sign on as proponents of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is belied by a simple headcount.
that he continues to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would more narrowly help protect the franchise.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the only Republican who has endorsed the proposal, expressed uncertainty Monday when she was asked to describe the path to 60 votes in the evenly split chamber. "I don't know. I don't know. It's a challenging one. I think we just have to be honest with it," Murkowski said. "You've got to find an awful lot of Republicans to join us on this.
It was not uncommon to hear Democrats joke in the spring and summer of 2009 that Barack Obama talked to literally no one more than then-Sen. Olympia Snowe , a relative moderate who retired in 2012, whose vote the White House routinely needed for all kinds of priorities.
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