There has been some discussion here about whether or not Obama has time to get a replacement nominated and confirmed, or whether the Republicans can slow things down enough to push it to the next President (who they hope will be one of them).<p>I wonder if it might be better for the Democrats to not even try to get a nominee through before the next election. From what I&#x27;ve seen liberal&#x2F;progressive leaning younger voters are more likely than conservative leaning younger voters to feel that Congress and to a lesser extent the President are totally beholden to corporate lobbyists and that voting doesn&#x27;t make a difference so why bother.<p>An open Supreme Court position at the time of the election could give Democrats something to focus their get out the vote message on (for both the Presidential election and Congressional elections) that might get through to some of those younger liberal&#x2F;progressive leaning voters.