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grovkin
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Midterm elections are notorious for their low turn out. Elections, in general, are emotional rather than rational actions. No single individual can decide their outcome. So people need to have some motivation to act on what they perceive to be some sort of collective good.

The only motivation Democrats had was to delay the inevitable confirmation.

There was no way to prevent the confirmation because even if the Republicans lost the election, there would have been 2 months between the election and the swearing in of the new Senate when they could have confirmed the judge.

But the Democrats had an opportunity to create a cause for their base to be angry about. Anger is known to be one of the best motivations. So it's effective. This was the sole goal of looking for reasons to delay the confirmation vote by any means they could find.

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