▲ 580 ▼ McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record run in the job (apnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by jordanlund@lemmy.world [M] to c/politics@lemmy.world 127 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ares35@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) scotus should be a 5-4 majority the other way right now. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child) If you count the elections where it should have gone the other way based on the popular vote, more like 6-3 liberal majority, and arguably even 8-1 with Thomas being the sole holdout. Trump's 2016 "win" gave them three justices. Bush didn't get any nominations his first term (which he only won via the electoral college), and then went on to get two his second term (where he did get the popular vote). So it depends on if you expect Republicans to win the popular vote in 2004 or not if they didn't already have the office. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ares35@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago more like 6-3 liberal majority, and arguably even 8-1 with Thomas being the sole holdout. this is also true. but thomas shouldn't even be there, either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child) If you count the elections where it should have gone the other way based on the popular vote, more like 6-3 liberal majority, and arguably even 8-1 with Thomas being the sole holdout. Trump's 2016 "win" gave them three justices. Bush didn't get any nominations his first term (which he only won via the electoral college), and then went on to get two his second term (where he did get the popular vote). So it depends on if you expect Republicans to win the popular vote in 2004 or not if they didn't already have the office. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ares35@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago more like 6-3 liberal majority, and arguably even 8-1 with Thomas being the sole holdout. this is also true. but thomas shouldn't even be there, either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago more like 6-3 liberal majority, and arguably even 8-1 with Thomas being the sole holdout. this is also true. but thomas shouldn't even be there, either. permalink fedilink source parent