<p>Saturday's vote to pass ObamaCare out of the House of Representatives was a nail-biter, passing with two votes to spare over the bare-minimum majority of 218. The final vote, 220-215, had 39 Democrats join all but one Republican in voting no.</p><p>Yet while a solid 15 percent of the Democratic caucus bucked the party leadership with their no votes, the media have latched on to the sole Republican defector: pro-life, social conservative Catholic Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.), who has a tenuous hold in a solidly liberal Democratic district once held by the corrupt William Jefferson. </p><p>Time's Jay Newton-Small <a href="http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/07/one-gop-vote/" target="_blank">made much of the solitary Republican defection</a> in Swampland blog post on Saturday, painting it as an abject failure of House GOP Whip Eric Cantor's &quot;promise&quot; to keep the opposition unified. Newton-Small had to add an update later clarifying Cantor made no such explicit promise:</p><div class="artTxt" style="line-height: 135%"> <div class="snap_preview"><blockquote>