54% of 2016's "stay at home / 3rd party candidate voters" say they "don't know" RE: Kavanaugh

[Miles Archer]

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court, is drawing mixed initial reviews, starting out with less support than Neil Gorsuch did in 2017, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. And unlike a year ago, when conservative enthusiasm far outweighed liberal opposition, the intensity of opinions on the latest brewing judicial controversy appears closer to being evenly matched.

Americans are split roughly in three on Trump’s decision to nominate Kavanaugh: about a third approving, a third disapproving, and another third saying they’re not sure. They’re similarly divided on what action they’d like their senators to take, with 33 percent saying they want them to vote in favor, 31 percent against him, and 36 percent unsure.

Views are deeply politicized: 81 percent of Donald Trump voters approve of the president’s decision, while 74 percent of Hillary Clinton voters disapprove. A 54 percent majority of voters who stayed home in 2016 or picked a third-party candidate say they don’t know enough about the decision to say.

Asked whether the Senate should hold confirmation hearings this fall, or whether it should wait until after the midterms, Americans say by a 5-point margin that it should act before the election. But, after being reminded that Republicans blocked Obama nominee Merrick Garland from receiving a hearing in 2016, they say by an 8-point margin that Democrats would now be justified in doing the same.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/poll-kavanaugh-draws-cooler-reviews-than-trumps-last-scotus-pick_us_5b48f025e4b0e7c958fb1c5c

[SunSeeker]

1. Idiots.