(Someone else asked in another post about my evidence for the claim that President Bush campaigned on the confirmation issue in 2002 -- it was all over the media at the time, so I didn't think it necessary to provide citations. But I list a few here:
The claim was not that Bush campaigned on the issue. Rather, it was that several of the close elections could be attributed to voters preferring Bush's nominees. I would like to see any evidence that the electorate in, say, Georgia, Missouri, or Minnesota cared one way or the other about judicial nominees. As I recall, Max Cleland was beaten because he was deemed unpatriotic for raising questions about the Homeland Security Bill, and so on... sandy
