Senators Mark Kirk and Susan Collins are first break in Republican dam of Supreme Court obstruction.
'One vulnerable Republican incumbent senator can read the way the blue state polling winds are blowing, and is breaking from the rest of the party over blocking President Obama's eventual Supreme Court nominee. . .
Being from Obama's home state is certainly a factor, since the president is from there and chances are pretty good that the unprecedented obstruction of this president's nominee will not be a particularly popular thing. It's been a while since any polling was done in Illinois, but the last time PPP checked in last summer, it wasn't looking good for Kirk. At all. He had a 42 disapproval rate, with just 25 percent approval.
Kirk doesn't stand entirely alone. Maine Republican Susan Collins says "it's clear that the president can send up a nominee—regardless of where he is before he leaves office," and that the Senate "should follow the regular order and give careful consideration to any nominee that the president may send to the Senate." Note, she stops short of calling for hearings and a vote, leaving it at "regular order." That gives her wiggle room to not fight back too hard when Mitch McConnell decides to entirely ignore the nominee.'
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