Senate Republicans voted 32-23 against the bill. I was interested in the breakdown among them as a test of William Kristol’s argument that every Republican in a competitive state was with the president and McCain. Looking just at this year’s tight races, the pro-bill side included DeWine and Chafee. The anti-bill side included Burns, Santorum, and Talent. (I don’t consider Kyl or Allen vulnerable, but they were also anti-). This particular political argument seems to have been comprehensively disproved (which is not of course to say that Kristol’s other arguments have).