Spinning the Roberts vote

While the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (remember the market) applauds Cantwell's purely symbolic vote against Roberts as a recognition that she needs the support of the left, the Everett Herald (remember the market) more correctly labels it as a gamble that could lose Cantwell the political center she needs to win the 2006 election.

Other pure symbolic votes came from Akaka (D-HI), Bayh (D-IN), Biden (D-DE), Boxer (D-CA), Clinton (D-NY), Corzine (D-NJ), Dayton (D-MN), Durbin (D-IL), Feinstein (D-CA), Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Kennedy (D-MA), Kerry (D-MA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Mikulski (D-MD), Obama (D-IL), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Sarbanes (D-MD), Schumer (D-NY), Stabenow (D-MI).