This vote broke the 70-year Soviet tradition of uncontested elections.

The mayor would preside at council meetings, but had no vote except to break ties.

With 55 Republicans in the Senate, the vote did not break precisely along party lines.

The vote on the two measures generally broke along party lines and there were discussions of possible compromise approaches.

The vote also broke along racial lines, in a city that is 61 percent black and 39 percent white.

What happened next depends on how the vote broke down:

That vote broke for the Democrats, 63 percent to 37 percent, according to those polls.

That's the point - individual votes don't make or break elections.

Henry is a Black Widower, and his vote will break the tie.

But they could not muster the votes to break a Republican filibuster.