[sickoflibs]

RE:”Senator John McCain (AZ) has been absent all year owing to health reasons, and there is a good possibility he may sit out the confirmation vote, making the balance effectively 50 Republicans to 49 Democrats”

Dems on MSNBC keep saying they only need to flip one GOP Senator and all the DEms, the second part will be a challenge.

[pepsionice]

Well, there is one other problem here for the Democrats. This new Senator Jones from Alabama has to run again in 2020, if he votes against the name...it’ll be pulled out and talked a good bit in Alabama politics. Some say that he’ll have to vote for the name, in order to win in 2020.

I suspect there’s four Democratic Senators in the race for this November, and that their vote against the person will hurt their election chances slightly.

The whole election for November, in my mind....has changed because of this episode.