Reply #3: What I think is

[Andy823]

Some republicans would have had to explain their NO vote to the voters and may have voted YES. Right now they don't stand to lose anything, like their job, so they don't care. They will have six more years before they have to "explain" things, and they know that by then voters will have forgotten! This should have been voted on "before" the elections and if it didn't pass, if republicans stopped it, those running for re-election may have NOT been re-elected! It was a huge mistake by democrats not to push this before the elections!