Polls Show The Supreme Court Blockade Is Hurting The GOP

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Polls Show The Supreme Court Blockade Is Hurting The GOP

by Michael McAuliff at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/liberals-see-signs-supreme-court-fight-hurts-the-gop_us_56d974bee4b0ffe6f8e8f0cd?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats think the GOP blockade of President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee will hurt Republicans at the ballot box -- and liberal polling published Friday suggests it may be a factor.

The Democratic-aligned Public Policy Polling's four new surveys for the group Americans United for Change point to four swing states that most observers have ranked as likely to stay in Republican hands: Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina and Missouri.

In all of them, the polls find voters do not think their senators should leave the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia vacant for more than a year. Asked if they think it should be filled this year, convincing majorities in all four say it should.

According to the PPP:


It’s a 56/40 spread in favor of filling the seat in Iowa, 56/41 in Arizona and Missouri, and 55/41 in North Carolina. What’s particularly important in the numbers is the strong support for filling the seat among independents- it’s 60/38 in Missouri, 59/37 in Arizona, 58/38 in Iowa, and 55/38 in North Carolina. Independent voters will be key to determining whether these incumbents sink or swim this fall, and they want the vacancy filled.



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[Buzz cook]

1. Imagine if we had an honest media

The GOP would be in single digits.

[CincyDem]

2. Oh please God, let Portman (R-OH) get hammered in November.

Sounds like we've got Biden coming to town to stump for former Gov (Kasich predecessor) Strickland, the most likely Dem to be running against Portman.

The Dem primary is Strickland and Sittenfeld, a Cincinnati councilman. Sittenfeld is a good guy and he's got a future but he's not state-ready yet. Strickland has the benefit of having already won a statewide election so I think, appropriately, the stars align for him in the primary.

The advantage Strickland has is that he's a former minister so he can relate to the religious moderate right. He's pro-choice and very articulate in how he reconciles his personal anti-choice position with his official pro-choice position - I've heard him say it a hundred times. My job is to make my choice for me and ensure that every woman in Ohio has the ability to make her choice for her.

I haven't seen any recent polls but he was close a couple/three weeks ago.

He's got the right urban/rural profile...liberal democrat for the cities and credential man of God for the rural...and neither seem to get in the way of the other.

We could do a lot worse than Ted Strickland...like re-electing Rob Portman.

Please God - send Portman back to his private legal practice in downtown Cincinnati. We'll all be better for it.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

4. Likewise for toomey(r-PA)

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3. To the GOP: Please proceed