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Majority of Americans favor Sotomayor confirmation

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Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation

and if there is any need for proof that the right-wings attempts to slander this nominee failed miserably...take a look at this:

Sotomayor counters GOP critics over bias claims - Yahoo! News


A new Associated Press-GfK poll suggested that Americans have a more positive view of her than they did of any of former President George W. Bush's nominees to the high court. Half backed her confirmation.


While I am not a huge fan of this nomination, I am loving the fact that the GOP and the right-wing specifically continue to screw themselves and show how out of touch with the country they truly are.
 
Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation

and if there is any need for proof that the right-wings attempts to slander this nominee failed miserably...take a look at this:

Sotomayor counters GOP critics over bias claims - Yahoo! News


A new Associated Press-GfK poll suggested that Americans have a more positive view of her than they did of any of former President George W. Bush's nominees to the high court. Half backed her confirmation.


While I am not a huge fan of this nomination, I am loving the fact that the GOP and the right-wing specifically continue to screw themselves and show how out of touch with the country they truly are.

Maybe the poll is correct but I do not believe that will influence the DECIDERS. Yet I could be wrong, I was once !!
 
Gallop said:
Last week, Gallup's one-night reaction poll to the Sotomayor nomination found significant gender differences when Americans were asked to rate Obama's choice as excellent, good, only fair, or poor. In the current poll, however, there is no similar gender gap, as men (55%) and women (52%) are about equally likely to say they favor Sotomayor's confirmation.

I found that fascinating and unexpected.
 
I found that fascinating and unexpected.
It doesn't surprise me. I don't like her as a jurist, but the simple reality is the Constitution gives the President the right to choose whom he wants to sit on the Federal Bench. Most people I think realize this; most people I suspect don't want a replay of the Robert Bork hearings, or the Clarence Thomas high-tech lynching.

She's ok, but not great, which means she should get the job (unless she implodes during the confirmation hearings).
 
The GOP has to pick it's fights, this isn't one of them, never has. I don't like her, but, cmon, she's replacing a liberal. Doesn't matter in the long run at all.
 
Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation

and if there is any need for proof that the right-wings attempts to slander this nominee failed miserably...take a look at this:

Sotomayor counters GOP critics over bias claims - Yahoo! News


A new Associated Press-GfK poll suggested that Americans have a more positive view of her than they did of any of former President George W. Bush's nominees to the high court. Half backed her confirmation.


While I am not a huge fan of this nomination, I am loving the fact that the GOP and the right-wing specifically continue to screw themselves and show how out of touch with the country they truly are.
Government by polls, yeah. What's wrong with your brain?
 
I find it hard to believe the majority of Americans could even tell you who the hell she is and why she's in the news.
 
It doesn't surprise me. I don't like her as a jurist, but the simple reality is the Constitution gives the President the right to choose whom he wants to sit on the Federal Bench. Most people I think realize this; most people I suspect don't want a replay of the Robert Bork hearings, or the Clarence Thomas high-tech lynching.

She's ok, but not great, which means she should get the job (unless she implodes during the confirmation hearings).

I meant that the first day, women greatly supported, and men where strongly against, but now it's about even, with men being slightly more in favor of her. Why was there an initial split by sex, and why has it changed?
 
It's a shame that people rely on polls to make their arguments. Is popularism really that important?
 
Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation

and if there is any need for proof that the right-wings attempts to slander this nominee failed miserably...take a look at this:

Sotomayor counters GOP critics over bias claims - Yahoo! News


A new Associated Press-GfK poll suggested that Americans have a more positive view of her than they did of any of former President George W. Bush's nominees to the high court. Half backed her confirmation.


While I am not a huge fan of this nomination, I am loving the fact that the GOP and the right-wing specifically continue to screw themselves and show how out of touch with the country they truly are.

All the far-right's hyper-partisan rhetoric is backfiring on them just like it did with Sara Palin running around screaming about "pallin' around with terrorists." (BTW, I do a spot on impression)

With information so accessible and attainable on the internet, and with 24-hr news constantly vetting facts, don't they know people are going to get wise to the BS talking points?

I would apply the above criticism to both the GOP and Dems, but lately the right has gotten more desperate and really gone too far in some cases.

And, BTW, who even knew Pat Buchanan was still alive. That must have been funny when he woke up and found out we have a black President?:doh
 
It's a shame that people rely on polls to make their arguments. Is popularism really that important?

When the argument is that the far rights talking points are not working, how would you have us judge their effectiveness?
 
I meant that the first day, women greatly supported, and men where strongly against, but now it's about even, with men being slightly more in favor of her. Why was there an initial split by sex, and why has it changed?
First you have the usual split between feminazis and misogynists.

Then comes the realization that she's neither Benjamin Cardozo in a skirt nor Roger B Taney with some salsa on the side, just another judge in love with her own brilliance, and that there are better things to worry about.
 
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First you have the usual split between feminazis and misogynists.

Then comes the realization that she's neither Benjamin Cardozo in a skirt nor Roger B Tawney with some salsa on the side, just another judge in love with her own brilliance, and that there are better things to worry about.

It is Roger B. Taney, not Tawney. I know this because I had no idea what you where saying and had to look up the names. With that in mind, spelling does count.

By the way, I loathe and detest the term "femizani".
 
When the argument is that the far rights talking points are not working, how would you have us judge their effectiveness?

Good point. I think the far-anything talking points are the one's that don't work anymore.
 
It is Roger B. Taney, not Tawney. I know this because I had no idea what you where saying and had to look up the names. With that in mind, spelling does count.
True.

I blame the beer.
 
It's a shame that people rely on polls to make their arguments. Is popularism really that important?

What's wrong with relying on polls to get a sense of what the pulse of America is? There is a difference between putting every issue to a poll or the ballot and using polls to get an idea of what America is thinking.

The reality here is...the right-wing continues to shoot themselves in the foot with their feigned outrage. Americans continue to see through their rhetoric.
They thought that if they said it enough, they could convince people that Sotomayor was a "racist"...instead America sees it as just political theater and bad acting at that.
 
Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation

and if there is any need for proof that the right-wings attempts to slander this nominee failed miserably...take a look at this:

Sotomayor counters GOP critics over bias claims - Yahoo! News


A new Associated Press-GfK poll suggested that Americans have a more positive view of her than they did of any of former President George W. Bush's nominees to the high court. Half backed her confirmation.

While I am not a huge fan of this nomination, I am loving the fact that the GOP and the right-wing specifically continue to screw themselves and show how out of touch with the country they truly are.

So...

Things you feel are "constitutional rights" shouldn't matter in the least about what the majority thinks...

But people who deem whether something is or is not constitutional is something we should care greatly about what the majority thinks?
 
So...

Things you feel are "constitutional rights" shouldn't matter in the least about what the majority thinks...

But people who deem whether something is or is not constitutional is something we should care greatly about what the majority thinks?

Liberal logic: Popular opinion doesn't matter...except when it matters.
 
What's wrong with relying on polls to get a sense of what the pulse of America is? There is a difference between putting every issue to a poll or the ballot and using polls to get an idea of what America is thinking.

The reality here is...the right-wing continues to shoot themselves in the foot with their feigned outrage. Americans continue to see through their rhetoric.
They thought that if they said it enough, they could convince people that Sotomayor was a "racist"...instead America sees it as just political theater and bad acting at that.

OH NO


Rasmussen Reports: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere

ONLY 45%, not 54%!!!!

Given that no more than 35% of the country has the slightest idea of who she is and no more than 10% of the country has any familiarity with her positions and the qualities that make a good judge, I don't think it's particularly important to get public opinion on this crap.
 
Liberal logic: Popular opinion doesn't matter...except when it matters.

So, the GOP doesn't listen to public opinion polls??

Somebody better tell the guy in accounting writing all the big checks to professional pollsters.;)

This poll just says that people aren't buying the extreme talking points.

Honestly, on the morning she was nominated, I turned on Fox and Friends and two conservative legal experts were calling her a centrist. That's not the answer Darcy wanted but that was my first impression of the nominee and I haven't come across any legitimate info to contradict that.

I'd like to commission a study on the narcotic effects of talking points. For some, they do see like an opiate.
 
Liberal logic: Popular opinion doesn't matter...except when it matters.

You don't think those who will vote on her nomination will be looking at these polls?
 
Come on Righties don't wimp out on this one..charge up that attack machine into full gear..The Republicans ignorant claims she's a hispanic racists amonst everything else is going to nothing but ensure that they never receive another Hispanic vote in any election in the future.

Come on attack, attack, attack...this is a worthy fight.
 
Come on Righties don't wimp out on this one..charge up that attack machine into full gear..The Republicans ignorant claims she's a hispanic racists amonst everything else is going to nothing but ensure that they never receive another Hispanic vote in any election in the future.

Come on attack, attack, attack...this is a worthy fight.

Thanks, this was very relevant.
 
Come on Righties don't wimp out on this one..charge up that attack machine into full gear..The Republicans ignorant claims she's a hispanic racists amonst everything else is going to nothing but ensure that they never receive another Hispanic vote in any election in the future.

Come on attack, attack, attack...this is a worthy fight.

I don't think it's fair to group the entire GOP with a very loud minority of far-right has-beens and pundits.

The hispanic racist b.s. was tossed into the echo chamber by Rush and picked up by two old men suffering dementia (Gingrich and Buchanan).

GOP Senators have stayed clean as far as I can tell.

Sure, they will put on a show of dragging it out to appease the base, but they know she's more than qualified and a centrist.

The far-rights on DP will put down the talking-point pipe and sober up, if they're smart.
 
This the same majority that rejects same sex marriage?

oops:doh

...oh the contradictions are notable :2wave:

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I also enjoy noting how a majority of Americans as well as many here are seemingly capable of determining her worth in a lifetime position based on virtually no information whatsoever..they haven't even really begun the initial phases of the process to begin the confirmation process....
 
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