Silver isn't worried that Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson oppose using reconciliation to modify the healthcare bill:
[If] Democratic negotiators have any brains, you'd think they'd know better than to worry about what Bayh, Nelson, Lincoln, Mary Landrieu or Joe Lieberman are thinking about and see what's doable with some combination of the other 54 votes….If you start to see Senators that are closer to the veto point make uncomfortable noises about reconciliation — someone like Claire McCaskill or Nelson of Florida or Mark Warner — that's when you'll know that the strategy is doomed.