Senate Results thread

[Schmitz in 1972]

More and more it looks like neither MO nor VA will be a hold.

I don't know how Virginians can be so feeble-minded. With a greater margin than most polls predicted, they passed the gay marriage ban, not realizing that electing the likes of Jim Webb is a sure way to get gay marriage legalized nationwide within 10 years.

Things looked good in 1986. We had just won Bowers v. Hardwick (case in point that this supposedly "conservative" court is far less conservative than in the late 80s), had confirmed Scalia and Rehnquist. White was starting to vote with conservatives on all the major cases, O'Connor was still quite good (her heroic dissent in SD v. Dole was one year away), and Powell, Brennan, Marshall, and Blackmun were all getting really old.

Then the country had the wisdom to give the Dems a senate majority. Bork was even more qualified than unanimously confirmed Scalia, but with a majority the Democrats gleefully voted him down. So from 1987 to 1991 when there were three critical retirements we got only stealth justices, only one of which would end up panning out (Thomas).

sigh.