Do voters care about the Supreme Court?

Surprisingly enough, it seems they do:
“It’s really not a top-of-mind thing for people on the street,” said Barrett Kaiser, a Democratic strategist in Montana. “The guys sitting on the barstool right now are talking about the harvest and hunting season and could care less about inside baseball in Washington, D.C.”
A Democratic strategist in Indiana agreed. “I’m not sure people [were] watching hearings as intently,” said Robin Winston, former chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party. Both strategists said the final vote would likely play a role for voters, although probably not as a make-or-break issue.
Some of the polling in some of these states, however, suggests otherwise. A Trafalgar Group survey over the summer showed Manchin with a 29-point lead over Republican Patrick Morrisey -- as long as he voted for Kavanaugh. Conversely, the poll showed Manchin’s lead narrowing to only two percentage points if Manchin did not vote for Trump’s nominee.
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3 comments:

  1. Grim4:23 PM

    If Kavanaugh goes down, which is not very likely, it'll matter a lot more if Red State Democrats voted against him. If he gets through, people will forget by election day that it was an issue.

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  2. james6:34 PM

    I wish I didn't have to think about the SC. But they've been given ridiculous power--overflow from the ridiculous power the rest of the government has accumulated, and as unaccountable as the bureaucracy.

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  3. E Hines11:05 PM

    If Kavanaugh goes down, which is not very likely....

    I'm not as sanguine about Murkowski or Collins (although I'm not worried about a crowd-sourced effort at bribery or extortion, depending on which lawyer one asks, influencing Collins).

    Eric Hines

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