Brett Kavanaugh's Poll Numbers Are Firmly In The Red
Ariel Edwards-Levy,HuffPost
With
Brett Kavanaugh set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, the Supreme Court nominee’s numbers are underwater, according to a new round of polling.
Surveys out this week from YouGov for
HuffPost and for
The Economist, from
Morning Consult for Politico, and from
Marist for PBS NewsHour and NPR all find public opposition to Kavanaugh’s nomination outstripping support for it by between 3 to 6 points, joining
previouspolls that also found him earning negative ratings.
For a Supreme Court nominee, that’s deeply unusual ― as NBC
noted last week, it’s the first time dating back to 2005 that a judge hasn’t been favored for confirmation to the high court. Determining exactly how much of that unpopularity is owed to the
sexualassault allegations against Kavanaugh remains somewhat tricky. Certainly, they haven’t helped him.
But Kavanaugh was already
less popular than other recent nominees, including President Donald Trump’s previous pick, Neil Gorsuch. And even absent any sort of scandal, Supreme Court nominees
tend to see their numbers drop throughout the confirmation process. Added to that, public opinion polls naturally fluctuate from week to week, making it hard to distinguish sampling variation from a small-but-real shift in opinion.
Initial HuffPost/YouGov polling
found virtually no change in Kavanaugh’s numbers after he was publicly accused of sexual assault; Gallup, which was conducting a poll while the story broke, also
concluded that “opposition to Kavanaugh was already increasing before the allegations were publicized, and the allegations appeared to have had no immediately negative effect on public opinion.”
But taken together, the latest set of polls paint a clearly negative and likely somewhat worsening picture:
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there again the right wingers around here can't see what the rest of the country does.....why is that?
must be their ability to swallow a con job...and refuse to admit they swallowed a turd!