But there are others that have less to do with party than they do with math. It generally takes 60 of the Senate’s 100 votes to end a filibuster rather than a simple majority. So when Fetterman wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, pivoting on his previous opposition to filibusters, it grabbed attention. “I now wholeheartedly agree with (former Sen. Joe Manchin’s) assessment that scrapping the filibuster is part of ‘extreme election-year politics that put party power over everything else,’ ” Fetterman wrote. But if it is still a way to make the voices of those with less power heard, Fetterman is right to speak up.