Sixty-two percent say Sotomayor should be confirmed to Supreme Court.
Sixty-two percent say Sotomayor should be confirmed to Supreme Court.
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll out today asked respondents if the Senate “should or should not confirm” Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Sixty-two percent said that the Senate “should” confirm her — the largest percentage offering support for a Supreme Court nominee in the Post/ABC’s polling since Clarence Thomas in Sept. 1991. This number includes a majority of independents (64 percent) and liberal/moderate Republicans (56 percent). And despite a recent Gallup poll finding that a majority of Americans consider themselves “pro-life” — which many conservatives touted as evidence of opposition to a woman’s right to choose — the Post/ABC poll found that 60 percent “want Sotomayor to vote to (uphold) Roe versus Wade,” the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that paved the way to legalized abortion.
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“…the Post/ABC poll found that 60 percent “want Sotomayor to vote to (uphold) Roe versus Wade,””
Do either the people who formulated the poll’s question, or the people who answered it, have any clue how the SCOTUS works? ‘Cause they certainly don’t work by ‘voting’ to ‘uphold’ anything.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:12 amI was subjected to one of those “pro-life” polls. The phrasing of the question made it sound like you supported murder if you didn’t answer “yes.”
As the conflicting poll results show, most people are “pro-life” and most people believe that ultimately it is a medical decision that is between a woman and her doctor.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:12 amThis poll also shows that a majority are willing to either overlook, or agree with, Sotomayor’s statement about an Hispanic woman being better able to render decisions than a white male.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:15 amOf course nearly everyone with a functioning brain would agree that medical decisions are between patient and doctor. Certainly most everyone is pro-life — the question should be who is against choice.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:20 amEven Sarah Palin, indicated that she “chose” to give birth to an imperfect child — but she would take that same choice away from others.
Matters of life and death are too personal and profound to be political — Terry Schiavo anyone?
As far as I’m concerned, men have been basically effing up the entire planet for the last several millenia – let’s give women a chance, shall we…?
Or hey, how about just equal representation??
June 28th, 2009 at 11:26 amFeatured comment, BnF! Well done!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:31 amAnd despite a recent Gallup poll finding that a majority of Americans consider themselves “pro-life” — which many conservatives touted as evidence of opposition to a woman’s right to choose.
Except that it wasn’t opposition to a woman’s right to choose. The very next poll question in that Gallup poll asked if abortions should be legal and a majority said yes. Only 23% said that abortion should be illegal.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/118399/More-Americans-Pro-Life-Than-Pro-Choice-First-Time.aspx
You have to be careful about polls because the answer you get may be skewed by how you ask the question.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:33 amIt’s a good thing “62% agree,” because Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:35 amI think she should be confirmed.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pmmajority are willing to either overlook
Just yesterday you progressives were claiming not to trust the washpo, today it’s gospel? The above comment is classic party before country mixed with a nice dose of racism. Nice!
June 28th, 2009 at 12:11 pmRLF. If you oppose Sotomayer, what’s your concern?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pmI wonder how many Americans agree with Clarence Thomas’s vote to allow children to be strip searched at school.
I’m pretty sure I know how Sotomayor would have voted on that.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:40 pmMathazar says:
Thomas has got to be the most intellectually challenged or defecient Supreme Court Justice in memory.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:53 pmFox News has won a court ruling that holds that broadcasters have a 1st Amendment right to deliberately distort news or outright lie on the air.
The only reason ko is still on the air.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
Just yesterday you progressives were claiming not to trust the washpo, today it’s gospel?
Who says it’s the gospel? WTF are you talking about?
Why don’t you tell us what is wrong with the poll’s methodology and why, instead?
C’mon troll, you can at least try….
June 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pmThomas so graphically showed just how unfit to be a S C Justice – in his lone decent regarding the constitutionality of strip searching of miners. I doubt that any action of Thomas more graphically demonstrates his unfitness to be a SC judge than this one. Most of the time he watches Roberts and Scalia and then just mimics them, but alas, this time Thomas showed his true colors. Poor thing just does not get the basic protection afforded American citizens and more especially, children. He certainly has no insight in to the trauma this child experienced when she was strip searched. How wonderful that she was finally vindicated by all but Thomas, and who cares what Thomas says anyway.
June 28th, 2009 at 6:36 pmSo with this poll:
June 28th, 2009 at 10:49 pmWe have some information, on the confirmation, thats getting transportation to her declaration of her legislation?
:)
Everyone … sing along …
This is good news – one way or the other
Briseadh na Firefly Said: This poll also shows that a majority are willing to either overlook, or agree with, Sotomayor’s statement about an Hispanic woman being better able to render decisions than a white male.
Someone at Think Progress is as little informed as is Briseadh na Firefly or that reply would not have been chosen to be the featured comment. The obvious question is, decisions regarding what? And the context of Sotomayor’s statement answers the question.
Context is in the fourth commentary of the June 18 issue of my modest op-ed e-zine, which is posted at http://tinyurl.com/lc9wue . Getting something right ain’t rocket science. Getting something wrong that is so easy to get right is probably intentional.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:45 pmJoe, your June 3 issue has the exact quote:
In a 2001 speech Sotomayor said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Right-wing commentators have put forth that one comment, regardless of context, as proof that Judge Sotomayor is a racist.
The point in my comment above is that the poll shows a majority of the people have not bought the Republican talking point about Judge Sotomayor being a racist, hence unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. There was no need for me to discuss the context of her statement.
From reading your blog, it looks like we’re on the same side. Surely you can add your contributions and context without putting others down. Si?
June 29th, 2009 at 12:46 am