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3. We won in 2012.

Reply to BeyondGeography (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:40 PM

Jun 2018

Yeah, republicans had the senate, so I guess you could say that's what happens when you don't win the senate too, but it's a first.

Used to be the president got to nominate and there was a reasonable negotiation of sorts with the senate.

Mcturtle changed that. Now the norm is that the senate has the ultimate power and there need be no deference to the president, at least when it's a president from a different party.

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