Miers Will Win Confirmation
A new CNN Poll confirms that, barring the completely unexpected revelation, Miers should handily be confirmed. Although her support is lower than that of Roberts, there is virtually no difference in her numbers among independents and liberals, and even 58% of self-described conservatives rate her as an excellent or good pick. Translation: tepid support does not equal a failed nomination. Put your money on Miers taking the bench…
The question is will the conservative pundits fair so well.
BTW, check this out
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/739
Poll Shows Miers Support
Mark Coffey has linked to a poll which is great new for Miers and Bush, and a clear warning to conservative, whining pundits that are wringing their hands over Miers:
Asked to rate Bush’s nomination of Miers, 44 percent of those polled describe…
[...] Mark Coffey has linked to a poll which is great new for Miers and Bush, and a clear warning to conservative, whining pundits that are wringing their hands over Miers: Asked to rate Bush’s nomination of Miers, 44 percent of those polled described it as excellent or good, while 41 percent said it was fair or poor and 15 percent had no opinion. [...]
So they asked 803 adults, eh? Only 100 of them have ANY say in the matter, and I am certain none of them were in the Gallup/CNN poll.
Do you REMEMBER what we all said about Clinton when he ‘governed by poll’ instead of making real decisions?
The electorate does NOT choose a Supreme Court nominee. Personally, I was rooting for Brown or Clement as nominee; their stances seemed better to me than Luttig. What the White House punditocracy seems to have forgotten is that we have THREE MORE YEARS to get a confirmation. I would have been a lot more sympathetic if this were 2007 and Miers had been chosen to replace Stevens after he died; but this – where we have a Justice sitting until the choice is made, and we can afford to get a brilliant mind in place of one that is handy-by – what a waste!
Peter Porcupine, the reason for highlighting the poll is to suggest that there is no overwhelming public opposition to the nomination, and thus no overwhelming reason for Congress to oppose it. I assure you, for the most part, they are quite responsive to these things…
“we can afford to get a brilliant mind in place of one that is handy-by”
For all we know, Miers has a brilliant mind. For all we know. I guess that’s the point.
Mark-
It’s way too soon to poll. This is entirely the public’s first impression — and will be fleeting.
Wait for the big-time Christian-bashing, lesbian innuendo, and hints of some of her actual (pro-life, pro-2nd amendment, narrowly construed Establishment Clause, etc…) judicial views to permeate into the national conversation. Wait for the hearings, in which Senators can start hitting her with past statements she’s issued on such legal views. I, for one, haven’t the foggiest idea how quickly she can field challenging questions, or how she’ll come across in the hearings.
Like you, I pay quite a bit of attention to this, and also like you, I haven’t figured out what I think about her yet. It’s hard to imagine that a more typical voter who has perhaps caught ten minutes of TV news coverage and read an article or two in a paper has formed a hard-and-fast opinion about her already.
Clint, good points…although I’m not rushing to judgement on my own opinion of her, I guess I’m guilty of doing a little of that with the opinion of others on this poll…