a. The pattern of the confirmation votes for the nominees shows that most nominees favor the president's political inclinations and thoughts, while those whose nominations were not confirmed happened when the Senate majority did not come from the president's party.
There are <em>no noticeable </em>exceptions to the pattern of the confirmation votes, which tend to indicate that the party in the majority in the Senate usually confirms the nominees more than the party in the minority.
b. The confirmation votes have always followed a predictable pattern. When the president's political party aligns with the Senate majority party, most nominees are confirmed, sometimes without much debate.
Thus, we can conclude that the president's political party and the majority party in the Senate always influence the confirmation of the nominees or their rejection, as the case may be.
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