Obama has truly helped me locate myself on the map.  I'm a lot more liberal than I realized.

My son, Gen-Xer, has always said that.  But I'm like also this rabid Southern belle type, too, who is horribly judgmental about rudeness.  It makes me nuts when people boo, for example.  Tacky, tacky, tacky.

It's the same to me as leaving your pumpking out to melt.  Or your Christmas lights on past January.

Is this what we have to look forward to?

In terms of the 'Iron Law of Institutions', the Obama campaign is masterful.  From top to bottom, they have destroyed their opponents within the party, stolen out from under them their base, and persuaded a whole set of individuals from blog readers to people in the pews to ignore intermediaries and believe in Barack as a pure vessel of change

I would never have predicted this.

They were angry when Feingold voted Ashcroft out of committee and now he's a hero because he endorsed Obama. They were upset when Leahy dithered until he endorsed Obama.  Some were suggesting Chuck Hagel as an Obama running mate because he came out against the war while ignoring his hard right voting record. Even McCain achieved near hero status during the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform days and they were giddy when the rumors about a Kerry/McCain ticket were rattling around.  Chris Dodd was a goat because of his ties to the insurance industry until he did his FISA show and endorsed Obama.

Ezra Klein was a UHC advocate until he went in the bag for Obama. Now, not so much.

FWIW an Obama supporter said that Cass Sunstein would be Obama's choice for SCOTUS. Sustein is a strong Obama supporter, graduated from Harvard Law and currently teaches at the University of Chicago Law School so this does make some sense.

Sunstein is a proponent of judicial minimalism, arguing that judges should focus primarily on deciding the case at hand, and avoid making sweeping changes to the law or decisions that have broad-reaching effects. He is generally thought to be liberal, although he has publicly supported various of George W. Bush judicial nominees, including Michael W. McConnell and John G. Roberts. Much of his work also brings behavioral economics to bear on law, suggesting that the "rational actor" model will sometimes produce an inadequate understanding of how people will respond to legal intervention.
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Judicial Minimalism

Their anti-conservative, yet also anti-liberal stance is well-expressed in the concurrent belief of many minimalists that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided by its overly liberal court, but also that modern conservatives who either sit on or influence the Supreme Court of the United States are wrong to try and overrule that case at one fell stroke, its effect on the law having become a stable precedent. Depending on the minimalist's particular preferences, a minimalist on the court would be likely to either very slowly bolster or chip away at abortion precedents rather than proclaim a lasting ban or legalization on abortion via Constitutional rulings.
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But, I'd like to point out that here we have a classic example of who Obama would seek out: a man who would restrict abortion access.

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