North Carolina’s Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan voted with fellow Democrats in the Senate today to table an amendment that would have allowed employers and insurers to opt out of provisions in President Obama’s health care law on moral or religious grounds. She was joined by 49 other Democrats and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe in casting her vote against religious freedom.

While only one Republican, the RINO Snowe, joined Democrats in favor of tabling, three Democrats joined the Republicans in opposing the tabling of the amendment, making the losing side more “bi-partisan” than the winning side:

The future of Thursday’s amendment in the closely-divided Senate hung on decisions from a handful of Senate centrists. Retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine voted with the majority of Democrats to table the amendment, while three centrist Democrats– Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska– crossed party lines to vote with Republicans in favor of the amendment.

Snowe announced her retirement yesterday, citing the increasing partisanship of politics in Washington. Many saw this as a blow to Republican chances of winning the seat in Maine in 2012, but, as this vote shows, it could hardly get worse for Republicans in key vote tallies if a Democrat wins in Maine.