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The Washington Times published a poll of conservative Republicans-I forget the precise polling firm that conducted the survey-which showed that less than 54% of them supported this nomination.

These are the results of the Pew Poll that is linked at the Washington Times website and published Oct 11, 2005:

Opposition to Miers is largely partisan, but she has not drawn enthusiastic support from conservative Republicans. A narrow majority of conservative Republicans (54 percent) favor her nomination.

So, 100% minus 54% equals 46%. But it doesn't equal 46% opposed to Miers:

Digging into the poll, 54% of conservatives support her nomination, 9% did not and 37% were undecided.

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In other words, 46% of the respondents did not immediately support the President's choice to fill the O'Connor vacancy.

How do those numbers compare to the initial reaction among the same group when the John Roberts nomination was announced?