[Jorge]

The talkathon had very little to do with getting democrats to change their votes. That is not going to happen. This is about changing votes in senate elections in 2004. If a few more votes of hispanics, blacks, and women can be pried away from the Democrats on this issue, it may be possible to pick up 5 or 6 seats in the senat in 2004.

I wish this would happen, but I don't think very many people were paying attention.
And I doubt if many people were aware that the judicial nominies in question were black or hispanic.

IMHO this publicity stunt was probably not very effective.

[alloysteel]

Perhaps the tactic would have been more effective if the time had been given over entirely to Democrat speakers, until they had all taken a turn of a couple of hours at the podium. With careful collection of every minute they were on. Then when the particular Senator that had droned on endlessly is running for re-election in his or her home state, run the clips including their most egregious statements (and there would have been plenty of examples from just about every one of them), as an "anti-campaign". Not by the Republicans, but as "public interest service stewardship".

Every day as political spot announcements for the week running up to election day.