How do you sway conservative Democrats in the Senate to unite in voting for health care reform? Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) tells TPMDC:
There’s potentially a dynamic that works in all of this that as you get closer and closer to the vote, you say–you really do say–we’re going to make or we’re not going to make history, and it takes on another dimension, psychologically. I mean I’ve been through that myself. I’ve gone downstairs thinking maybe I’m not going to vote for that, and then suddenly I see its dimension, think of it in large terms, and then vote for it.
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