JFC, after no change on the 9th ballot it looks like they're starting the 10th.
Remember back in the misty times of this morning when several Kevin backers said he'd have to face reality if last night's "negotiations" didn't move a significant number of votes towards him?
They moved none, and his backers just keep robotically repeating their votes.
@RationalLeft He *lost* a vote from his tally this last time out.
@LiberalLibrarian He did? I haven't seen the final totals, but there was a reference to no change.
@RationalLeft He had 200 votes, down from 201.
@LiberalLibrarian Maybe someone wasn't there.
@RationalLeft No, there were the Taliban Twenty, and then one voted present.
@LiberalLibrarian That was true since the 3rd ballot, and it got him to 201.
@LiberalLibrarian Then someone must have been absent. Because the same 21 didn't vote for him previously, and he got 201. They do have 222 seats.
@Helical_Code @LiberalLibrarian Yes, I just heard that he'd left and missed the vote. "A planned non-emergency medical procedure."