Posted on 10/10/2018 10:00:13 AM PDT by Signalman
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Republicans are madder about the Kavanaugh controversy than Democrats are and more determined to vote in the upcoming elections because of it.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of all Likely U.S. Voters say they are more likely to vote in the upcoming midterm elections because of the controversy surrounding President Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Only nine percent (9%) say they are less likely to vote. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the controversy will have no impact on their vote. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans are more likely to vote because of the Kavanaugh controversy, compared to 54% of Democrats and 46% of voters not affiliated with either major political party.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of all voters are angry about the U.S. Senate’s treatment of Kavanaugh, with 42% who are Very Angry. Fifty-six percent (56%) are angry about how the Senate treated Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, including 35% who are Very Angry.
ixty-four percent (64%) of Republicans are Very Angry about the Senate’s treatment of Kavanaugh, a view shared by 30% of Democrats and 34% of unaffiliated voters. By comparison, fewer Democrats (48%) are Very Angry about the Senate’s treatment of Ford; 28% of GOP voters and 30% of unaffiliateds agree.
Democrats’ five-point lead on the weekly Rasmussen Reports Generic Congressional Ballot has vanished. The two parties are now tied with less than a month until Election Day. We'll be watching to see if this is the beginning of a post-Kavanaugh trend.
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An angry Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee at the last-minute hearing at which he denied multiple allegations of sexual assault when he was in high school: “This confirmation process has become a national disgrace. The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process, but you have replaced advise and consent with search and destroy.” Most voters said he was right. Even Democrats were conflicted.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of voters who are Very Angry about the treatment of Kavanaugh are more likely to vote in the upcoming elections. Among voters who are Very Angry about the treatment of Ford, 70% say they are more likely to vote.
Just over half of both men and women say they are more likely to vote this fall because of the Kavanaugh controversy. Interestingly, 40% of women are Very Angry about the treatment of both Kavanaugh and Ford. Men are much angrier about the treatment of Trump’s nominee.
The older the voter, the angrier they are about the treatment of both Kavanaugh and Ford, but those 40 and over are madder about how Kavanaugh was treated.
Sixty percent (60%) of voters 40 and over are more likely to vote because of the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court nominee, compared to 43% of younger voters
After they both testified publicly before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 47% of all voters who were following Kavanaugh news Very Closely believed him, while 41% believed his accuser instead. Among all voters, it was a tie.
Following the Senate’s vote to confirm Kavanaugh’s nomination on Saturday, 50% think he belongs on the Supreme Court, but 42% disagree.
Earlier this month, 65% gave the Senate poor marks for its handling of the Kavanaugh nomination. Just 14% felt it did a good or excellent job.
Democrats were trying to derail Kavanaugh's nomination in hopes that they win a Senate majority in November, but most voters agreed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence that the full Senate vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination no matter what.
These prog douches kicked a hornet’s nest.
I believe this is true.
Generally, GOP voters turn out in higher rates than dems in midterms. This Kavanaugh episode will propel turnout to Presidential year levels.
"The main base of the Democrats have shifted so far left that we’ll end up being Venezuela. This country would end up being Venezuela. I think a lot of Democrats are going to be voting voting Republican on Nov. 6," Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for a law enforcement event in Florida.
President Trump has drawn the line in our political sand and thrown this gauntlet down re future elections!
Kavannaugh is a boy scout compared to me and probably most of you and definitely most of our politicians. If he can be railroaded like that, no one is safe!
Wait until the end of this week and next week. Baker’s testimony is being slowly leaked and it will show definite corruption in the FBI. Hopefully they’ll tie it to the DNC$$ on Halloween.
Agreed! I am thinking we are going to hit presidential numbers. I see less blacks and Hispanics turning out for the Democrats as well.
Been reading tweets from liberals cheering Hurricane Michael for punishing Trump supporters in the Panhandle. Despicable!
“Kavannaugh is a boy scout compared to me and probably most of you and definitely most of our politicians. If he can be railroaded like that, no one is safe!”
Oh yeah, but most of my douchebaggery came after high school!
“Been reading tweets from liberals cheering Hurricane Michael for punishing Trump supporters in the Panhandle. Despicable!”
That’s ok ...I’d be cheering too of #9 earthquake hit Portland.
Seems to me the only campaigning that needs to be done is to show over and over again videos of some of the most egregious things the left has done during this episode.
Elevators, restaurants, hallways. The MINDLESS hysteria is a sure winner!
Let the left do their talking.
And we all know, we vote.
Mrs. Alaska, always plods through the ballot, hand picking the candidates and {in my opinion} wastes 15 minutes.
She is so pissed off about Kavanaugh, that for the first time in her lifetime, she is going to vote straight RRRRRRRRRR.
We are not alone, the demonRATs are fuxjed {just a little to the right, and it will be OK}.
Tallahassee is Gillum’s district I wonder if those same libs are celebrating Hurricane Michael..boy I tell ya Commie libs are DESPICABLE TRASH
“Only nine percent (9%) say they are less likely to vote.”
They’ll be too busy breaking windows, burning cars and harassing Trump voters.
Let’s all email every conservative friend and family member to tell them to vote in our own way. Ask them to write their own contact list the same.
A successful railroading means he would not be justice, as he is today.
Hmm...I always go through the entire ballot too, one by one, but that’s just because I like to vote Republican so many times.
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