count noses

Like the Toronto researchers’ report, the new Portland chamber study uses cellphone data to count noses.

“If you were just trying to count noses, I think you would think there are more votes to be skeptical of these programs now than ever before.”

"Scalia once said there's only one reason politicians do or say anything, it's to get reelected, and that might not be what President Trump wants. So Mitch McConnell better count noses before he does anything. He's already lost two Republicans. He can only afford to lose one more. If he loses two more, his nomination isn't going to come to the floor."

"If you look at Nixon, and tried to count noses in terms of who was in favor of impeachment at the beginning, it would have been close to zero," Fein said.

House Democrats met privately Wednesday to count noses, and Madigan said afterward that out of his 71 members, 34 favor keeping the higher tax rate, 30 are opposed and four undecided.