I&#x27;m sorry but I don&#x27;t think you have any idea how American politics and elections <i>actually</i> work.<p>Democrats in meaningful numbers aren&#x27;t going to vote for your Cruz, Rubio, Bush, or Trump because the president chose to use a recess appointment because he faced senate leader in McConnell that blatantly proclaimed he and his cohort would not be interested in governance and rather just play obstructionist games.<p>On the contrary, elections in America are more (or less depending on your perspective) complicated than you imagine. First, of course, the idea that this would make democrats vote for Cruz is pretty, I hate to say it but, dumb. Second, presidential politics in our time is only about a small handful of states. Alabama isn&#x27;t voting for Hillary and New York isn&#x27;t voting Cruz. Third, you over estimate how much the electorate would care or understand about recess appointment. Have you ever met a voter other than yourself. We have college students at Texas Tech that don&#x27;t know even know what the civil war was or what country on the other side of the Atlantic the Americans fought a revolutionary war against. You sound like you are probably <i>very</i> educated about those matters but you are hardly a meaningful representation of the electorate.<p>There is so much time between now and the election, there are so many late night comedy skits, gotcha moments, weird and potentially racist statements yet to be said on the campaign trail that your idea that some kerfuffle about &quot;recess appointments&quot;, which was actually not committed by any of the actual candidates, would even matter at all in the election seem pretty naive, impractical, and uninformed.