Op-Ed by Professor Pitney Featured in New York Times

An article written by John J. Pitney Jr., the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College, is featured in the Thursday, Aug. 6 Opinion page of The New York Times.

Titled Of Little Consequence, Pitney's article is among a handful of responses from other political pundits (including a former assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney and a former Reagan official) reacting to a projected breakdown of Senate votes for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

"Senate Republicans will probably not pay a price for opposing Judge Sotomayor," Pitney writes. "It is hard to think of many senators who have lost re-election because they voted against judicial nominations. (Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore Sr. may have suffered in 1970 for opposing two of President Richard Nixon's choices, but other causes contributed to his defeat.) It is especially hard to identify senators who got into trouble for casting protest votes against a nominee who was going to win anyway."

Pitney is the co-author of Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics.

Read his NYT comments in full: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/sotomayor-hispanics-and-the-gop/#john

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