Poll: Less Than Fifty Percent of Americans Support Sotomayor Nomination — Numbers Lower Than Harriet Miers Going Into Confirmation Hearings
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Sonia Sotomayor has been heralded as a judge with a life story that should inspire all Americans and, even though she has a fairly conservative voting record in some areas, liberal activists have rallied around her nomination. A new poll, however, suggests that most Americans are neither inspired nor supportive. Only forty-seven percent of people polled by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation support Sotomayor and, more importantly, forty percent outright oppose her confirmation.
Those figures put Sotomayor in a worse position than Harriet Miers who was forced to withdraw from consideration for the Court.
It is also lower that the support for Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
Even independents are split on the nomination with forty-two percent in favor and forty-one percent against the nomination.
