WASHINGTON — The Washington Examiner has teamed up with the international research data and analytics group YouGov for an ongoing polling initiative to discover voter public opinion and insights among key demographics, geographical regions, and ideologies.
Key reveals from the inaugural Washington Examiner/YouGov poll include:
· Over 60% of the public opposes packing the Supreme Court with liberal judges in the event the court is expanded.
· If the Supreme Court is expanded, just 11% of all voters want its composition to be “overwhelmingly liberal,” compared to 47% who would like to see it balanced. Democrats support a balanced court over a liberal majority by 52% to 38%.
· Only 1 in 3 registered voters favor a Democratic proposal to expand the Supreme Court in order to install a liberal majority.
· 47% oppose growing the Supreme Court beyond its current nine members, while only 34% back the idea, popularly known as “court packing.” Even among the 60% of Democrats who want to expand the nation’s highest court, half prefer it to be ideologically balanced, and fewer desire a liberal majority.
· The poll also found that the majority of respondents considered the Supreme Court nomination important to their vote this November, with 58% considering it “very important,” while another 21% said it was “somewhat important.”
This survey was conducted among 1,200 registered voters and has a 3.6% margin of error.
The poll is the first of a series from the Washington Examiner and YouGov, which will reveal what the public thinks about topical political issues in the lead-up to Election Day. The insights will be shared within a series of articles from the Washington Examiner and hosted on YouGov’s polling insights page here.
For Washington Examiner/YouGov poll queries:
For Washington Examiner
Alex Rosenwald, [email protected], 202-480-4514
Carly Hagan, [email protected], 517-896-6636
For YouGov:
Jamie Antoniou, [email protected]
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