The No Votes
Posted on September 29th, 2008 by beetlbumjl Tags: bailout, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, H.R. 3997, House of Representatives, map, NO, NYTimes, Wall StreetBias and political points aside, the NYTimes presents a nice breakdown of the Republican (red) and Democrat (blue) votes against the bailout bill. Those voting for the bill are represented in gray. Not shown in the screenshot I grabbed is the entire listing of those voting No, their states, districts, party affiliation and margin of election victory.
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September 30th, 2008 at 5:06 am
They didn’t try real hard to make the “No Vote” as in did not vote stand out.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Yeah, I was too busy looking past their negative spin to worry about the None vote. For example, “Details on the Republican and Democratic representatives who voted to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.” I jumped around the cable news circuit last night, and Lou Dobbs seemed to be only one calling this for what it was. O’Reilly had Kerry as a guest and yelled at him for not having enough Democrats to pass this thing. Then CNN went back into panic mode by having some guy up there “explain” the crisis and claim that “if they don’t do anything, YOU won’t get paid!!!” Oh welll, I suppose the media interpretation of this is a whole ‘nother post.