Hat tip to the always-amazing Igor Volsky of Think Progress for doing the math on this. His Twitter page has been a treasure trove of interesting information regarding the issue of replacing Justice Scalia.
The numbers:
117 Justices have served on the Supreme Court 17 of them were confirmed during election years 17 out of 117 is 15%A lot of Volsky’s tweets in the past couple days have been devoted to using logic and history to smack down the ridiculous Republican arguments on this issue. I would encourage everyone to head over there to give him some Twitter love and help logic and history go viral.