The Supreme Court is now voters' top midterm issue

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

A new Pew Research survey found 76% of registered voters say Supreme Court appointments will be a "very important" part of their 2018 midterm vote in November.

Why it matters: That's higher than the 65% of voters who said the same in June 2016, and more voters consider the Supreme Court as a crucial voting issue right now than health care (75%) and the economy (74%) — the two leading topics throughout this cycle.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-voters-supreme-court-23fb6df2-c72b-49e6-ab3a-6902a1da66b5.html

[still_one]

1. well wherre were THESE voters in 2016!!!!!!!!

[FSogol]

3. +1 Exactly. n/t

[turbinetree]

6. I second that motion, I always vote in every election because of the court

and this packing of the courts with right wing hacks, as made this country what it is today...............the facts bear this out when you have libertarians republicans right wingers rigging the system of power.

Nancy MaClean's book : Democracy in Chains, I believe explains how and what and why we are here today, and all of the pundits that attacked her, tells me that she struck a nerve .......................and exposed how the right wing cabal, has flourished in this country

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533763/democracy-in-chains-by-nancy-maclean/9781101980972/


And Ian Millhiser book: Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices

[BigGermanGuy]

32. we can't change the past

but we sure as hell can influence the future.

[muntrv]

7. But...but...her e-mails!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Cuts both ways. Lots of Republicons voted tRump in 2016 because of SCotUS. . . . nt

[still_one]

14. NO. It was the self-ldentifed progressives REFUSED to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016, by

either voting third party or NOT voting.

In every one of those critical swing states Hillary lost by less than 1%, and in those states, Ms. Stein received that 1% of the vote.

As a special bonus from these so-called purist who were pontificating at the time the SC didn't matter to them because they were "tired of voting for the lesser of the two evils". That was bullshit, and a lie, but they managed to spread and influence just enough naïve people to believe that FALSE EQUIVALENCY LIE.

Every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states lost to the establishment, incumbent, republican, and those Democrats were progressive by any standard.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. You make my point.

In 2016, Republicons were more motivated by SCotUS than Democrats, independents, and sometime-voters.

You can't conclude that that has changed.

Just because the numbers are up on SCotUS as an issue does not mean that they are necessarily up more among Democrats and wobblies and sometime-voters.

[still_one]

22. I believe they realize they were conned, deceived and LIED to by the Jill Steins, Susan Saradon's

and those other so-called self-identified progressives on social media push the big LIE of the false equivalencies between the republicans and Democrats

I regard them the same way I regard the socio-path in the WH. However, those that were gullible and naïve, now more than aware of those frauds. A lot of them weren't around in 2000 where the same lies spewed.

However, the polls seem to disagree with you assessment, and I am not just talking about this SC poll, I am talking about the midterm polls.

[Laura in LA]

19. This is my fear. I hope it sparks more Dem than Rep voters.

[still_one]

23. The polls have been indicating the Democrats are more motivated

[Laura in LA]

25. Yes! I'm hoping women in particular will be so disgusted

That we might even gain Senate seats. But I know Senate gains would be incredibly difficult.

[still_one]

29. It will be the women who make this happen

[Rizen]

37. This.

I'm so angry at non-voters/independents for giving Republicans the supreme court. People need to learn elections have consequences that last decades.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I wonder if certain folks on the left are learning

I wonder if certain folks on the left are learning just how important the SC is and that last election. Look at the lengths the traitors will go to. They are risking not being able to show their faces in public ever again, ever. Not at a movie theater, restaurant, etc.

THEY know how important this is, too bad we didnt all.

Now in their case, sure, they are doing this so they can achieve their lifelong dream of executing women in alleys for having sex without permission or imprisoning them, whichever is easier.

[Laura in LA]

26. A thousand times, yes! Your point is incredibly important! NFM

[Maxheader]

4. Constitutional amendment..

General election for supreme court justices...
Government of the people, by the people, for the people...

[cstanleytech]

15. Or a confirmation vote by the people during the next Presidential election at which time the people

are allowed a direct say on any new SCOTUS appointments.

[MarcA]

16. A Peculiar Institution just like the Electoral College is and Slavery was.

Hopefully other nations will learn from our errors, it may be getting
too late for this one.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. It doesn't say how many are conservatives that want Roe vs Wade reversed

And other issues that the Trumpublicans want to reverse or establish.


In fact, I'd think that the greater amount of that 76% are Evangelical Republican voters. As for many, it is the only issue and the only reason they say they put up with his immorality, is that he is a broken vessel being used by God to reverse abortion right laws, and help turn the country into a theocracy.

[calimary]

9. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins are SUPPOSEDLY pro-choice.

I guess we'll just have to see if they REALLY mean it.

[Dave Starsky]

10. Collins says she doesn't think Kav would vote...

To overturn Roe v Wade.

She also believes in the Easter Bunny and falls for The Circle Game every time.

[calimary]

8. Sorry, but WHAT TOOK 'EM SO LONG???????

We're IN this mess, in the first place, because the other side cared about this and we didn't. Or we THOUGHT we didn't.

I hope to God that changes.

[malthaussen]

11. A fuckin' day late and a dollar short. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

28. there it is. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Applies to Rs & Ds. Cuts both ways. Republicons consider SCotUS very important. . . . nt

[Honeycombe8]

17. I'm afraid it's too late to make that a voter's key issue. That was the issue in 2016. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

18. Perhaps the optics of ramming an appointee into the US Supreme Court w/o public or ...

democratic say in the matter would be detrimental for the elections in Nov. 2018?

[Honeycombe8]

20. Too late to do anything about it.

So that can't be a legitimate reason to vote. If they're angry about it, fine...they should vote. But the reason for voting is to DO something about something. At least that's my reason for voting.

Of course there's Ginsburg. But that is for the 2020 election. I hope not before then.

[Codeine]

36. It's a question of when barn doors should be shut. nt

[jcgoldie]

24. Sort of like closing up the barn after the horses are gone

[C_U_L8R]

27. It's going to be a long road back

but we have to win. The alternative is unspeakable.

[Calista241]

30. While I am encourage by this movement

I think it'll be 100% off of the MSM's radar in 8 -10 days, and everyone will move on to the latest outrage coming out of this White House.

The next North Korea summit will come up, and the media will be 24/7 focused on that. Maybe Canada will agree to the renegotiated NAFTA, or maybe Trump will decide to push things and proceed with an exclusive agreement with Mexico. Maybe he'll drop a few bombs in Syria.

In any case, Kavanaugh and the Supreme's will disappear into obscurity until opinions start coming out over the summer of next year.

[OliverQ]

31. Too late for that. Supreme Court is destroyed.

[BigGermanGuy]

33. the next dem president

has to expand the court by 2. 1 to reclaim merrick garland, and 1 to negate the boofer.

[OliverQ]

34. Why 2? Germany has 16 or 17 judges.

We should go to at least 15.

[Codeine]

35. A bit late for that

ya fuckin’ doofuses.

[Grubert]

38. Wow