The updates are coming fast and furious now.
• John Ralston reports that Dina Titus (D-NV) will vote for the bill. I had Titus as a lean Yes, but she was courted by pro-reform and anti-reform forces. She becomes vote #195 for the bill.
• Via Magster in the last thread, Nick Rahall:
Rahall indicated he was leaning yes on MSNBC just now, but wasn’t satisfied with abortion language and wanted a change. But he was talking about the bill as if it would pass and what needed done once it passed (translation: I won’t be the deciding vote to kill the bill, but if Pelosi can make my vote irrelevant, I’m voting no because I want to be reelected).
I think that’s very accurate with respect to Rahall, meaning that he’ll hold out until the very end. So can’t put him in any category right now. As for him talking about the bill as if it would pass, that’s definitely what the leadership wants everyone to think, and they may be close (3-5 votes), but not entirely there yet.
• Marcy Kaptur, a key undecided, told the Toledo Blade that she’s leaning toward voting for the bill. Peeling her away from the Stupak bloc would be key. Kaptur, from a strongly Democratic district, had been making some truly strange statements over the last couple days. Here’s the key bit:
Mr. Obama then listened as Mr. Reid assured Miss Kaptur that the bill would not undermine the long-standing Hyde rule against federal abortion funding.
“He said, ‘Marcy, I helped write those provisions. I assure you they don’t go beyond existing law,’” Miss Kaptur said. “I said, ‘I want to see the language you’re talking about.’”
• Mike Arcuri, now a No vote, is just getting hammered in his home state of New York. The Working Families Party is recruiting a third-party challenger, and the SEIU will end their support of the freshman Dem and look for a challenger as well. I don’t know if this is enough to switch Arcuri’s vote – he seems pretty dug in – but they’re certainly trying.
UPDATE: As David Waldman notes, Arcuri’s position on the powerful House Rules Committee may also be at risk.
Moving Titus to yes and Kaptur to lean yes, the whip count now stands at 195-208, with leaners 204-211.
The numbers…
| Tuesday, 3/16/2010 | Voted | Retiring | Stupak | PVI | No | Leaning No | Unknown | Leaning Yes | Yes | ||
| Aye | Nay | ||||||||||
| Definite No (30): | |||||||||||
| 1 | Adler, John | X | R+1 | 1 | |||||||
| 2 | Barrow, John | X | D+2 | 1 | |||||||
| 3 | Boren, Dan | X | R+14 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 | Boucher, Rick | X | R+11 | 1 | |||||||
| 5 | Bright, Bobby | X | R+16 | 1 | |||||||
| 6 | Chandler, Ben | X | R+9 | 1 | |||||||
| 7 | Childers, Travis | X | R+14 | 1 | |||||||
| 8 | Davis, Artur | X | D+18 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | Davis, Lincoln | X | R+14 | 1 | |||||||
| 10 | Edwards, Chet | X | R+20 | 1 | |||||||
| 11 | Herseth-Sandlin, Stephanie | X | R+9 | 1 | |||||||
| 12 | Holden, Tim | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 13 | Kissell, Larry | X | R+2 | 1 | |||||||
| 14 | Kratovil, Frank | X | R+13 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | Marshall, Jim | X | R+10 | 1 | |||||||
| 16 | McIntyre, Mike | X | R+3 | 1 | |||||||
| 17 | McMahon, Michael | X | R+4 | 1 | |||||||
| 18 | Melancon, Charlie | X | R | R+12 | 1 | ||||||
| 19 | Minnick, Walt | X | R+18 | 1 | |||||||
| 20 | Peterson, Collin | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 21 | Ross, Mike | X | R+7 | 1 | |||||||
| 22 | Shuler, Heath | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 23 | Skelton, Ike | X | R+14 | 1 | |||||||
| 24 | Taylor, Gene | X | R+20 | 1 | |||||||
| 25 | Arcuri, Mike | X | R+1 | 1 | |||||||
| 26 | Costello, Jerry | X | S | D+3 | 1 | ||||||
| 27 | Donnelly, Joe | X | S | R+4 | 1 | ||||||
| 28 | Driehaus, Steve | X | S | D+1 | 1 | ||||||
| 29 | Lipinski, Dan | X | S | D+11 | 1 | ||||||
| 13 | Lynch, Stephen | X | D+8 | 1 | |||||||
| 30 | Stupak, Bart | X | S | R+3 | 1 | ||||||
| Potential No-Yes Flips (10): | |||||||||||
| 1 | Altmire, Jason | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 2 | Baird, Brian | X | R | D+0 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 | Boyd, Allen | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 | Kosmas, Suzanne | X | R+4 | 1 | |||||||
| 5 | Matheson, Jim | X | R+15 | 1 | |||||||
| 6 | Murphy, Scott | X | D+2 | 1 | |||||||
| 7 | Nye, Glenn | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 8 | Tanner, John | X | R | R+6 | 1 | ||||||
| 9 | Teague, Harry | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| Potential Yes-No Flips (23): | |||||||||||
| 1 | Bean, Melissa | X | R+1 | 1 | |||||||
| 2 | Berry, Marion | X | S | R+8 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 | Cao, Joseph | X | S | D+18 | 1 | ||||||
| 4 | Carney, Chris | X | R+8 | 1 | |||||||
| 5 | Cuellar, Henry | X | S | D+0 | 1 | ||||||
| 6 | Dahlkemper, Kathy | X | S | R+3 | 1 | ||||||
| 7 | Ellsworth, Brad | X | S | R+9 | 1 | ||||||
| 8 | Foster, Bill | X | R+1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | Hill, Baron | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 10 | Kanjorski, Paul | X | D+4 | 1 | |||||||
| 11 | Kaptur, Marcy | X | S | D+10 | 1 | ||||||
| 12 | Kirkpatrick, Ann | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 13 | Michaud, Mike | X | D+5 | 1 | |||||||
| 14 | Mitchell, Harry | X | R+5 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | Mollohan, Alan | X | R+9 | 1 | |||||||
| 16 | Ortiz, Solomon | X | R+2 | 1 | |||||||
| 17 | Owens, Bill | X | R+1 | 1 | |||||||
| 18 | Perriello, Tom | X | R+5 | 1 | |||||||
| 19 | Pomeroy, Earl | X | R+10 | 1 | |||||||
| 20 | Rahall, Nick | X | R+6 | 1 | |||||||
| 21 | Space, Zack | X | R+7 | 1 | |||||||
| Committed Votes | |||||||||||
| Democratic | 195 | ||||||||||
| Republican | 177 | ||||||||||
| TOTAL | 208 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 195 | ||||||



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Bill Foster is a firm yes. He is fooling nobody with his claim to be “undecided”. I live in his district, and this coward of a man refused all townhall meetings, he will not publish a schedule of public appearances, he will not meet with groups, and will only meet with constituents one-on-one, behind closed doors, for a prescribed amount of time (usually 15 minutes. He always claims to be undecided until the last minute to placate the large majority of moderates (Dem and Reps) that live in the 14th District, then votes with the most liberal in the Democratic party. He will not survive in November, but he will vote yes anyway.
FDL, congratulations on the excellent job you are doing in tracking the projected vote count. Question: If some Members of the House cast their vote as “Present Not Voting” will this change the 216 votes required for passage?
Marcy Kaptur is my rep. Given that her primary objection has been based on the abortion language, it is embarrassing for her to suggest that she still needs to read what it says about abortion. I’m just going to tell myself that this is all kabuki. She knows darn well what it says, was holding out for a concession, and since it didn’t come, she is laying the groundwork to vote yes.
I agree with Nate Silver that the Democrats will have the votes they need, and it is a matter of distributing (in terms of prediction counts, that is) the votes by those who absolutely must vote for it and those who cannot afford to so in terms of re-election fights.
In terms of undecided Jim Matheson (D-UT), according to sources quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune, he is likely waiting to vote for the bill if need be, but not declaring his intentions, because the filing deadline for opponents is today, Friday March 19th. I agree with the sources quoted, that if the White House needs his vote, they will have it. My humble analysis. May this bill finally pass.