March 16, 2005
... Now, there's another poll here today on the judicial confirmations, and this comes from the Judicial Confirmation Network, and they went out ask they hired some professional pollsters to ask people what they think about the up-or-down votes on judicial nominees and this poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans favor an up or down vote on the floor of the Senate on judicial nominees. The survey was conducted by the Judicial Confirmation Network and it was 67% of voters agree that politics ought to be taken out of the courts and out of the confirmation process. "Eigthty-two percent of voters agreed that if a nominee for any federal judgeship is well-qualified, he or she deserves an up-or-down vote on the floor of the Senate. Survey also found that 75% of voters agree that President Bush should keep his promise made during the campaign to nominate a Supreme Court justice who will apply existing law not make new law and by 78 to 12% voters agreed that senators have a constitutional duty to vote on judicial nominations." Now, the poll was conducted March 6th through the 9th, 800 registered voters, margin of error plus or minus 3.6%. I forget the name of the polling company. It's a professional polling outfit. This institution itself did not do the poll. They commissioned it and a professional bunch actually went out there and did it. So the polling data on the president's plans and proposals, be it the judges or Social Security, is excellent; it is very good, and this is the kind of stuff elected Republicans in Congress in Washington need to realize. They do have support. They do have backing on this. But there they live in Washington; they read the Washington Post, and they read the New York Times, and they care, you know, what both of those papers say. It's frustrating, but that's life inside the Beltway.
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