51% of Americans Support Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, according to a recent Gallup poll
According to a recent Gallup poll, fifty-one percent of Americans want the Senate to confirm US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. President Donald Trump nominated the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge to the Supreme Court on September 26th, following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The lowest number of Americans, 3%, have no opinion on Judge Barrett’s confirmation since Gallup began conducting the poll in 1987.
The poll was filled with record numbers for a Supreme Court nominee. 46% of Americans are not in favor of Judge Barrett’s confirmation. This is the highest unfavorable rating since Gallup began polling. Judge Robert Bork, who has a verb named after the way Democrats went on the offensive against his confirmation, had an unfavorable 25% rating. The low number of Americans who do not know Judge Barrett’s confirmation, 3%, is correlated to her higher unfavorable numbers. For previous nominees, an average of 25% of Americans had no opinion about their confirmation.
With 84% of Democrats opposing the confirmation and 89% of Republicans in favor, Judge Barrett’s nomination is also the most partisan since the poll began. Among independent voters, the poll found 52% favor Coney-Barrett’s confirmation, 43% are opposed, and 5% had no opinion. Gallup notes that multiple other polling outlets have found most Americans support, allowing the winner of the 2020 Presidential election to nominate Justice Ginsberg’s replacement.
1,035 adults living in the fifty states and District of Columbia were asked about Judge Barrett’s confirmation between September 30th and October 15th. Polling started 4 days after President Trump nominated Coney Barrett and ended the day the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings ended. For the poll, Gallup asked, “As you may know, Amy Coney Barrett is a federal judge who has been nominated to serve on the Supreme Court. Would you like to see the Senate vote in favor of Barrett serving on the Supreme Court, or not?” The poll has a 4% margin of error.
