October 29, 2008 - 3:02pm
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Filibuster-Proof: The 60-Seat Fantasy Looks Less Fantastical

By Steve Kornacki
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If you ask Chuck Schumer or Harry Reid, they’ll give you a cautious answer about their party’s prospects of attaining a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate next Tuesday. It’s possible and it would be great if it happened, they have said over and over, but it will by no means be a disappointment if we fall short of it.

But it will be.

Read the whole thing here.

Steve Kornacki can be reached via email at steve.kornacki@observer.com.

Related topics: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer

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