it is a 50/50 u.s. senate. but the democrats at least all 50 were united on this procedural vote. yeah. it would have been a huge embarrassment to them had they not been able to get every democrat onboard for this legislation. what they ended up doing was getting joe manchin onboard. he proposed effectively alternative legislation. his legislation includes a voter id requirement and also early voting, vote by mail, ethics reform, ending dark money, et cetera. but they did manage to get him onboard today in the 11th hour. in the end, what i think they re going to do, and i don t think it s going to work, what they re going to do is take what manchin proposed and make that their new legislation and come back to deal with it on another day. you know, david chalian, there are some democrats who think this whole issue is for all practical purposes a