{"id":5721,"date":"2005-11-02T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2005-11-02T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:49:58","slug":"a-poll-that-may-bolster-dems-alito-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-poll-that-may-bolster-dems-alito-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"A poll that may bolster Dems’ Alito efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican strategy in response to Dems’ opposition of Samuel Alito, in addition to the possibility of the nuclear option, is to throw the “obstructionist<\/a>” label around. The catch, however, is that in order for this to be effective, the public would have to oppose the Dems’ efforts. <\/p>\n

There’s no reason to believe that’s the case. Earlier this year, an NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll<\/a> (.pdf) showed that Americans want<\/i> Dems to stand in the GOP’s way to prevent Republicans from going too far.<\/p>\n

In the subsequent months, as the president’s popularity has slipped further, the notion of Dem “obstructionism” has grown in popularity. In the context of the Supreme Court, this means a fight over the Alito nomination may not go<\/a> as Republican expect.<\/p>\n

A new Gallup Poll released today finds a mixed response to new Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito–but strong opposition if it becomes clear that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. And by a 50% to 40% margin, those surveyed say they would back a Democratic filibuster to stop his nomination, if it comes to pass.<\/p>\n

Gallup said that about the same number of Americans rate Alito’s selection either excellent or good (43%) as rate it fair or poor (39%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If it were clear that Alito would vote to reverse the abortion ruling Roe v. Wade, Americans would not want the Senate to confirm him, by a healthy 53% to 37% margin.<\/p>\n

This should give a shot in the arm to Senate Dems, who may be worried about the public reaction to a harsh nomination process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican strategy in response to Dems’ opposition of Samuel Alito, in addition to the possibility of the nuclear option, is to throw the “obstructionist” label around. The catch, however, is that in order for this to be effective, the public would have to oppose the Dems’ efforts. There’s no reason to believe that’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}