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Rating of Supreme Court Improves as Partisans Switch Sides
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 09, 2009 01:24pm |
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| Category | Poll |
| Author | Jeffrey M. Jones |
| News Date | Monday, June 22, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The latest Gallup Poll finds 59% of Americans approving of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, a significant improvement from ratings near 50% for the past two years, and just below the high of 62% measured in September 2000 and June 2001.
The overall number, though higher, masks considerable change in views of the Supreme Court by party since last fall. The new June 14-17 poll finds 70% of Democrats approving of the job the Supreme Court is doing, much higher than the 57% of independents and 49% of Republicans who approve. Last fall -- during the final months of the Bush administration -- the party ratings were nearly the reverse, with Republicans giving the court much higher marks than Democrats.
Given the timing of the September 2008 and June 2009 polls, it is unclear what impact President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has had on Republicans' and Democrats' views of the court. The dramatic party shift may simply reflect a phenomenon Gallup has observed in the past coinciding with changes in presidential administrations, with supporters of the new president's party turning much more positive about government institutions and conditions in the country more generally, and supporters of the outgoing president taking a dimmer view of both.
Gallup found a change in party ratings of the Supreme Court during the Clinton-Bush transition between 2000 and 2001. That change was greatly aided, however, by the court's decision in Bush v. Gore, which effectively awarded the disputed 2000 presidential election to Bush." |
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