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Party fundraiser at the navy pier in chicago, and much to everyone's surprise, hundreds of women showed up to picket that democratic party fundraiser, and they were all carrying the same sign, "dump dixon." you can actually still see the dump dixon pins they made for that protest. they're in political history collections now. but the first dump dixon protest was two days after dixon's yes vote for the clarence thomas nomination. two days after that protest, it's clear that senator al dixon, al the pal, was starting to have a little bit of an uh-oh moment about what that vote might cost him. th...

So the deja vu in me is saying more people are listening to you. we respect you. there are women on the court on the democratic side this time listening to you. but i think the result will be the same, that women will listen to this as i did back in 1991 and realize that elections matter. who is in charge matters, and that today in this year in 2018 the year of the me too movement, we are not going to sit at home and be quiet and just let it happen. we're not back to our houses. we're not going tell our stories. we are going to tell our stories. we will be believed, and we will make this count...

Actually, technically, it will be 50-48-1 because senator murkowski is going to vote present instead of no, because senator danes is at his daughter's wedding. basically, it's going to be 51-49, which would put it even closer than the thomas vote, which is 52-48. in our time this year, this vote on kavanaugh is happening right before the midterm elections. the midterms will be held on november 6th, exactly one month after tomorrow's vote. back in 1991, the thomas vote happened not in an election year, but at the time it happened, at a time that gave women plenty of time to decide that they mig...

Colleague for both republican and democratic senators. i know that he is a friend to a lot of senators as well as being a colleague. him crossing over and deciding to vote for judge kavanaugh, i have to ask if that was the subject of a lot of interparty discussion, if he was lobbied hard, if this is going to be an issue in terms of support for his re-election effort in west virginia, how that proceeds? because the democratic party can't say as a unit, as a unified force, we were all opposed to this. >> well, i have to tell you that each senator has to make their own decision, and we certainly ...

In the first place, he won it in a walk by nearly 15 points. when he got re-elected six years later, he won by 31 points. by the time he was ready to run for a third term in 1992, he honestly didn't even expect anyone to run against him. at the time he cast that yes vote for clarence thomas, there was no challenger declared to run against him, either from his own party or from the republican party. he cast his vote for clarence thomas on october 15th, 1991. two days later, on october 17th, 1991, senator alan dixon went home to illinois to a democratic party fundraiser at the navy pier in chica...