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Liberty Foundation Poll

Jane Cleery cites the Liberty Foundation poll's 68%-59% results in the Republican cloakroom, providing her senator cover to vote no on foreign aid. Josh reacts with outrage, decrying poll-driven cowardice as the numbers blindside his vote-counting efforts. Staffers reference it amid tense banter and a quorum buzzer, sharpening the bill's one-vote shortfall.

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S4E12 · Guns Not Butter

Cloakroom Count: One Vote Short

The Liberty Foundation poll is introduced as the decisive external artifact giving the senator political cover to defect; its numbers (68%/59%) are quoted verbatim and pivot the room from banter to crisis by legitimizing a no vote.

Before: Conducted or about to be released externally; known to the senator's office and circulating among staff as imminent evidence.

After: Cited publicly as justification for the senator's position; functionally converts private opposition into defensible public posture.

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S4E12 · Guns Not Butter

One Vote Down — Poll Cover and the Quorum Call

The Liberty Foundation poll is the catalytic object: Jane cites its imminent release and its specific numbers (68%/59%) as the explicit political cover enabling the senator's no vote. It functions narratively as the outside force that converts private preference into defensible public action.

Before: Imminently scheduled for release; known to cloakroom staff and being used as a political datum but not yet public among the wider press.

After: Invoked as justification in the cloakroom; its impending publication has already altered senators' behavior by providing media cover.

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