All elections matter

[dsc]

The latest decisions of the Supreme Court show how both Presidential and non Presidential elections matter. Since Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall in 1967 there have only been four other Democratic appointees. Everyone of them is still on the court and every one of them voted for all three of the good decisions that happened on Thursday and Friday. So, of course, Presidential elections matter. But it isn't only that. Kennedy wasn't Reagan's first choice for the Supreme Court. In 1987, Lewis Powell retired allowing Reagan his third chance to name a member of the court. He tried to name Robert Bork to that seat but in 1986 Democrats won control of the Senate and Bork was rejected. Kennedy was Reagan's second choice. Bork wouldn't have joined any of those decisions. The election of 1986 is every bit as responsible for those decisions as the elections of 1992 and 2008.

[MineralMan]

1. Exactly. Elections are about more

than the name of the President.

[Doctor_J]

2. you'd think the party apparatchiks would catch on to that and stop governing like

republicans. Then voters would show up every time. When you promise healthcare and deliver insurance mandates, people will tune out instead of turning out