Kagan's Star May Dim as Voters Reject Incumbents for High Court Nominations
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Although senators of both parties who have met with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan this week have said the 50-year-old former dean of Harvard Law School is highly qualified to be the fourth woman on the court, American voters aren't so sure.The Rasmussen poll released Tuesday found 39 percent of likely voters support the nomination, 39 percent oppose it and 22 percent are undecided.
In other years that poor showing with the populace might not matter so much.
But after this week's first batch of primaries since President Obama's election--where voters in Pennsylvania and Kentucky displayed an unusual willingness to boot out incumbents--senators in charge of Kagan's confirmation hearings might be less inclined to give the same easy nod they gave her nomination as the country's first female solicitor general.
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