How does 59 votes for jobs and 41 against jobs mean the vote failed?

There is an unwritten rule in the senate that 60 votes are needed to pass a bill but harry reid has sometimes not used that rule as he can do. It is up to the president of the senate if they are going to enforce that rule.

Republicans invoked Cloture on the NSA bill which mean it need 60 votes to come to the floor for a vote.

Simple minded little punk clone me because he doesn't have the intellect to debate me or prove anything I post is wrong.

The little punk want people to think he blocked me and clone me because he beats me in debates. Everybody knows that doesn't make sense.

because it needs a particular majoritty vote, for example in the last election, Conservative needed a certain % of votes to get into power over Labour so this may have needed a 65% majority vote or something.

60 is the super majority.

And if you call a jobs bill something that creates employment for two years, and then everybody loses their jobs because it only takes 50 people to run the pipeline, well then...

The only way it could is if there was a filibuster. You need 60 votes to force cloture.

Required 60 to pass.

Tables got turned. Oh the irony.

We democrats are checker players in the chess game of life.

see the US Constitution.

you need 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate thanks to Republican maneuvering.