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To: Lane3 who wrote (64249)	5/7/2008 8:13:13 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) of 543156

No, what I was objecting to is the following: If that were the case, the minority would automatically reject all candidates until the president came up with one from the minority party. That isn't how it worked. It isn't the case that the minority rejected all candidates. In fact, there were very few outright rejections in committee, in part because the president knew that extreme candidates would be rejected, and in part because usually (but not always) the president negotiated with the chair and ranking member of the committee prior to the formal nomination. Until 2001. To repeat, the rule had a moderating effect on who was nominated in the first place. Somehow we appear to talking across each other. Someone isn't understanding the other, this seems to me to be such a simple point. I'm perfectly willing to say that it is me who isn't understanding you. But the point isn't really worth spending a whole lot of time on right now.

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