and this was certainly a year where you wanted to be on the side of change. hillary clinton was just stuck. she is so familiar and she could not get a really winning and engaging and inspirational theme like barack obama had with his hope and change themes. so that it really prevented her from having more of more victories among more states. by the way, i think michelle would agree with me that while married women tend to vote republican, single women vote democrat and this year especially educated women with higher degrees turned out in larger numbers than before. and i just point that out because the funny thing was trump, as you mentioned, got fewer votes turning out than mitt romney did, but he had a different constituency. a lot of voters turned out for mitt romney didn t show up this time and others who didn t vote before did show up. and they were much more conservative.
senator jeff murphy said there needs to be a vote on president obama s supreme court nominee. listen to this. we really have to pay attention to the supreme court seat. the seat that is sitting empty is being stolen. it is being stolen from the obama administration, and the construct of our constitution and it is being delivered to an administration that has no right to fill it. so if the republicans block president obama s choice of judge merrick garland, will the democrats then filibuster whoever the republicans nominate to fill that still open seat, clarence? well, that s their right and we may see a serious clash here because donald trump is determined to get not just any conservative, but to get another scalia conservative. that means a pretty hard core.