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NRaleighLiberal

(60,007 posts) Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:37 PM Jul 2018

This diagram from 538 demonstrates the problem with tonight's news

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This diagram from 538 demonstrates the problem with tonight's news (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jul 2018 OP

This is a black day in a black and blue year. BigmanPigman Jul 2018 #1

I didn't think anyone could get further to the right than Gorsuch, but i guess i was wrong. Calista241 Jul 2018 #2

THIS CHART IS SUCH BS - with Kennedy at zero. Come on. sharedvalues Jul 2018 #3

Maybe it's logarithmic? jmowreader Jul 2018 #4

+1 sandensea Jul 2018 #5

Alito should have been in Los Angeles this last weekend. Sophia4 Jul 2018 #6

BigmanPigman

(51,568 posts)

1. This is a black day in a black and blue year.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:42 PM

Jul 2018

Calista241

(5,586 posts)

2. I didn't think anyone could get further to the right than Gorsuch, but i guess i was wrong.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Tue Jul 10, 2018, 12:20 AM

Jul 2018

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)

3. THIS CHART IS SUCH BS - with Kennedy at zero. Come on.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Tue Jul 10, 2018, 12:36 AM

Jul 2018

Normalize to the world, not to the US where billionaires have been militating for pro-billionaire judges for 45 years.

Alito is a CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER. This scale should have Kennedy at +0.25, Roberts at 0.75 and the other guys in another zip code.

Embarassing, 538.

jmowreader

(50,530 posts)

4. Maybe it's logarithmic?

Reply to sharedvalues (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 10, 2018, 12:41 AM

Jul 2018

The chart doesn't relate the political leanings of the Supreme Court to the rest of the world. It relates them to the leanings of Kennedy...and as far as that goes, it's pretty accurate.

sandensea

(21,604 posts)

5. +1

Reply to sharedvalues (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 10, 2018, 12:44 AM

Jul 2018

Lewis Powell's 1971 plan worked:

It's succeeded in moving U.S. political metrics so far to the right, that being a "centrist" in America these days is comparable to Thatcher-style conservatism in most of the rest of the developed world.

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)

6. Alito should have been in Los Angeles this last weekend.

Reply to sharedvalues (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 10, 2018, 01:38 AM

Jul 2018

It was 105 - 111 on our back porch Friday and Saturday. We have a thermometer and live in an especially hot area of town.

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