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nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 10:16 PM Jun 2018

Had Harkin(D-IA),Baucus(D-MT),Johnson(D-SD),and Rockefeller(D-WV) not retired/resigned in 2014,

Could all of those US Senators listed above have won re-election in 2014?
Had all of those US Senators ran for re-election in 2014 and won by a narrow margin, Merrick Garland would be now be a US Supreme Court Justice and Cocaine Mitch Turtle McConnell would still be Senate Minority Leader.
From 2015 to 2017, Democrats would have held 50 seats in the US Senate plus VP Biden breaking the tie. Garland would have been confirmed by the US Senate because McConnell would not have been able to pull the stunt he pulled in 2016.
From 2017 to present, Democrats would have gained 3 additional seats in the US Senate(IL,NH,and sweet home AL- Jones-D defeats Moore-R). Trump would now be stuck with 2 choices, Appoint a moderate to replace Justice Kennedy or wait until after the 2018 midterm election hoping the Trump State Democratic US Senators up for re-election in 2018 lose giving Republicans the majority in the US Senate. If Trump chooses the latter, Trump would be faced with reality of every Democratic held US Senate seat up for re-election in 2018 remains in the Democratic column and Democrats will gain 3 additional seats- AZ,NV,and TN. Trump will be stuck with 1 choice- appoint a consensus builder to the US Supreme Court.
The US Supreme Court would now have 5 liberals(Ginsburg,Breyer,Sotomeyer,Kagan,and Garland), 3 conservatives(Thomas,Roberts,and Alito), and 1 so called moderate.

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Had Harkin(D-IA),Baucus(D-MT),Johnson(D-SD),and Rockefeller(D-WV) not retired/resigned in 2014, (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 Jun 2018 OP
I am not going to blame them TheRealNorth Jun 2018 #1
If democrats would have shown up to vote in 2010 .... calguy Jun 2018 #2

calguy

(5,222 posts)
2. If democrats would have shown up to vote in 2010 ....
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 11:22 PM
Jun 2018

None of this would have happened. In my mind that's when we lost the country. Winning the 2010 midterm gave the republicans the ability to stop Obama's agenda and gerrymander the House districts. We are now playing with half a deck. It's not going to be easy to win back control. We have a country where the minority rules the majority. And the minority has the majority of the money to influence the elections and buy off Congress. Unfortunately that's the way it is and that's way it's going to stay until a critical mass of concerned citizens get off their collective asses and show up to vote in every single election. Unless that happens, we're going to keep getting screwed.

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