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78-22: an easy win for the Republicans...
22 Democrats (exactly 50%) voted against Roberts, which is puzzling considering that there was absolutely nothing in his record that should have prompted those votes. Ah, partisanship.
Hillary Clinton voted "no", presumably in an effort to appeal to the Democratic Primary base. We'll find out in just over two years if it worked.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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