Will Bernanke Need Only 50 Votes?

Open Left and the Campaign for America’s Future have launched a whip count for Ben Bernanke’s confirmation, and they count 40 votes in support of Bernanke thus far. The Wall Street Journal similarly has 40 in favor, 17 opposed and the rest undecided. They may need to recalibrate their whip counts, however. Because apparently, procedural votes and final votes are separate in Bernanke’s case in a way that they were not for practically everything else in the Senate.