Two-Thirds of All Americans Want Senate to Hold Confirmation Hearing on Obama SCOTUS Nominee
More Republicans Than Democrats Support Senate Supreme Court Hearing for an Obama Nominee
A brand new CNN/ORC poll released Thursday shows the vast majority of all Americans want President Obama to nominate a Supreme Court replacement and even more want the Senate to hold confirmation hearings.
Almost six out of ten Americans (58%) say “Barack Obama should nominate someone to fill the vacancy,”:
 Nearly two-thirds of Americans (66%) say “the Republican leadership in the Senate should … hold hearings on the nominee.”:
Americans, given the nature of politics today, are split on they ideological background they would like to see in a Supreme Court nominee.
37 percent want to “keep the Court as it was,” 32 percent want a Court “more liberal than it currently is,” and 29 percent want a Court “more conservative than it currently is.”
The White House Press Secretary was only too happy to tweet the poll today:
New @CNN poll says majority of Americans want Senate Republicans to do their job and consider a #SCOTUS nominee. → https://t.co/J4qQG1jvHM
— Josh Earnest (@PressSec) March 3, 2016
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