GET BACK, LORETTA! GO HOME.

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2/16/2016

Get Back, Loretta! Go Home.

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:45 am

Big Media is starting to take note of Tom Goldstein’s prediction that Loretta Lynch is the most likely nominee for Scalia’s spot.

 

Goldstein’s post revolves primarily around his well-founded belief that Obama will pander to voters through naked identity politics:

 

Democrats have two political priorities: motivating turn-out by their own voters and persuading independents to vote for the Democratic nominee. Two Democratic constituencies in particular vote in disproportionately low numbers: young Democrats and minorities.

 

The youth vote makes little difference here because the age range for a serious nominee (roughly, forty-five to fifty-two) does not directly touch that constituency. There are specific potential nominees who would motivate young liberal voters – Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example. But those nominees are the ones who would give Republicans the opportunity to hold hearings and reject the appointment on an up-or-down vote without serious cost.