You’ve Heard Elections Matter? Timing Matters TooFriday, February 26, 2016 Skipping Stone Ripples Editorial You have undoubtedly heard the catch phrase “Elections Matter” to describe the results of political battles between the Left and Right. The winners of presidential and congressional elections not only decide which issues are on the political agenda, they also shape the outcome of that agenda by exercising their Constitutional authority to make and approve judicial, executive and administrative appointments, boosted by having popular opinion behind them. The intersection of policy and politics is dramatically illustrated by the whirlwind surrounding the question of when the nomination of a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a forceful conservative jurist, will occur. |