Congratulations to Dodd!

Well, I wasn't sure it would work...

But Dodd did it! His filibuster of the FISA update has led to it being dropped, for this year. He got up and got some support from a small colleagues. Including Kennedy making an impassioned argument.

None of the ones running for president. They said they supported the move by Dodd. But as Countdown points to: (video)

Democratic presidential candidates oppose immunity, but when the FISA debate began today, only one had left Iowa to fight the battle in Washington.

Then Reid got up and announced the bill was being pulled.

"So, this is an issue that the American people are focused on. I've gotten in the last week or so, thousands of inquires from all around the country. This is an issue they understand, they don't like."

So congrats!

A lot of help came from concerned citizens.
Support on Dodd's Action Page, from Daily Kos:

11,300+ people emailed the Senators (16,000 people visited the page, a 75% follow through rate)...
506,000+ emails were sent to the Senate...
5,700+ comments were submitted through the website (350+ were posted on Twitter) in 7 hours...
135+ people joined the Facebook group since 11am...
340 people reported the phone calls they made to the Senate...

And many others contacted their reps, or Harry Reid specifically.