General Discussion

Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama

And why? Several reasons:

1) Republicans have been hammering the "Law & Order" brand forever and Democrats are easily bullied by that.

2) When Republicans control the Senate, they insist their advise&consent role is superior to the President's nomination role.

3) This is yet another example of how the Founders set the country up for minority rule by giving the rural states out-sized power .

The founders really had no interest in democracy. Their concept was much more like that of an expensive country club where everyone get s a vote but the people with old money make the decisions.