Rice confirmed; Post describes former Klansman as "centrist"
The Senate has voted 85-13 to confirm Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state.
Of the 12 Democrats and 1 independent who voted "no," the Washington Post writes:
Some of the Democrats who opposed Rice were centrists from states in which President Bush won or ran strongly in November, including Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), Mark Dayton (D-Minn.), Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
Sen. Byrd is, of course, the former Ku Klux Klansman who lead opposition to the appointment of the first black woman as secretary of state.