Regarding the remarkable fact that judicial nominations have not come up in any debate thus far (and probably will not come up in the foreign policy debate), Glenn Reynolds makes the trenchant observation:
Given the media’s sympathies, you can pretty much assume that if a topic hasn’t come up in the debates, it’s because they think talking about it is bad for Obama.
Indeed, I think there are few areas where the gap between elite and mainstream opinion is wider than the debate between originalism and the “living constitution”.
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