The Democrats’ Amy Coney Barrett Plan Has Imploded
Noah Rothman:
“…For a while, it looked as if Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court might end up as a net advantage for Democrats.
On September 26, the day Donald Trump formally nominated Barrett to the high court, a Morning Consult/Politico survey found that support for her confirmation languished in the low 30s. Only seven-in-ten Republicans favored her confirmation outright. In the days that followed, a variety of polls showed that a large plurality or even a majority of voters opposed Republicans’ efforts to violate the standard they set for themselves in 2016 and confirm Barrett before Election Day. And both Barrett’s confirmation and the event that preceded it, the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, helped Democrats and Democrat-aligned independent organizations raise tens of millions of dollars.
And then Democrats blew it.
Unlike devoted and unpersuadable partisans, voters do not see the Supreme Court as just another stage on which the drama of electoral politics plays itself out. And the more the public got a closer look at Barrett, the more they warmed to her…”