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riversedge

(70,077 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 11:58 PM Oct 2019

New Poll Suggests Sen. Susan Collins' Support for Brett Kavanaugh Will End Her Career

Source: lawandcrime.com





by Colin Kalmbacher | 12:38 pm, October 15th, 2019


A new poll, however, suggests that Collins has reached the twilight of her career due in large part to her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court — despite allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh and despite Collins’s pledge not to not vote for a nominee who demonstrated “hostility” to Roe v. Wade. Collins has said that when she spoke with Kavanaugh they talked “at great length about precedent and the application of stare decisis.” According to Collins, Kavanaugh said he “agreed with what Justice Roberts said at his nomination hearing, in which he said that [Roe] was settled law.”


Public Policy Polling (PPP) released data on Tuesday showing that only 35 percent of Pine Tree State voters currently approve of the job Collins is doing in the Senate while 50 percent of voters disapprove.

And in that poll she trails a generic Democratic Party politician by 44-41 percent. Those are strikingly poor numbers for an incumbent–much less an incumbent who has been a fixture of Maine politics for over three decades. Collins was first elected to the Senate in 1996.

The never-missed-a-vote Senator’s current numbers are a stark contrast to a similar poll conducted by PPP last September which showed her leading a generic Democrat by six points at 44-38 percent; representing a nine point swing against her favor....................

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/new-poll-suggests-sen-susan-collins-support-for-brett-kavanaugh-will-end-her-career/




good news for the #USA

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New Poll Suggests Sen. Susan Collins' Support for Brett Kavanaugh Will End Her Career (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2019 OP
Good. One more drumpf supporter bites the dust! democratisphere Oct 2019 #1
It Isn't Only the Kavanaugh Vote That Will Doom Collins Indykatie Oct 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Roy Rolling Oct 2019 #3
... sheshe2 Oct 2019 #4
I hope so catrose Oct 2019 #5
She is trying to raise money on her vote for Kavanaugh. gordianot Oct 2019 #6
As it should.... Pachamama Oct 2019 #7
Maybe see will turn on Donald in attempt to save herself. nt NCjack Oct 2019 #8
Good, but also totally insufficient to recompense the American people for the damage caused... RockRaven Oct 2019 #9
+1... IthinkThereforeIAM Oct 2019 #16
Good riddance nt Jarqui Oct 2019 #10
Awww.... we're deeply concerned. Talitha Oct 2019 #11
$50 bucks says... Xolodno Oct 2019 #12
Just hoping Maine is tired of Collins heming and hawing! riversedge Oct 2019 #15
Let's hope ellie Oct 2019 #13
Couldn't happen to a nicer person [THISISSATIRE] ramen Oct 2019 #14
NO !!! Not the horse she'll ride OUT on. 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #20
Good point. Out-horse, please disregard, and accept my apologies, ramen Oct 2019 #28
Yay!! Enjoy your retirement Sen Collins AllyCat Oct 2019 #17
Thoughts and prayers! B Stieg Oct 2019 #18
Na na, na na, na na, na na hey hey goodbye. IndyOp Oct 2019 #19
She brought it on herself. McCamy Taylor Oct 2019 #21
This just made my day. Nt raccoon Oct 2019 #22
Excellent. I hope so. Owl Oct 2019 #23
Good... That piece of shit never should have been confirmed Blue_Tires Oct 2019 #24
Good! Ms. Pro Rape for personal and party profit should be thrown out on her ear. lark Oct 2019 #25
I love these "feel good" stories early in the morning! Mike 03 Oct 2019 #26
Best news I've heard this morning. nt jrthin Oct 2019 #27
Susan, when you become concerned about Republican fascism, give us a call. 'Til then, bye Felicia. pecosbob Oct 2019 #29
But what about his love of beer??? Blue Owl Oct 2019 #30
I'm having an ugly day, and you just made it a little better. BigDemVoter Oct 2019 #31
Good. She blindly supports a corrupt traitor. She doesn't belong in the Senate. n/t. NNadir Oct 2019 #32
Heh. I bet she is *concerned* about those numbers. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #33
GOOD kwolf68 Oct 2019 #34
Bill Maher should take a look at this article JonLP24 Oct 2019 #35
This story should... Mike Nelson Oct 2019 #36

Indykatie

(3,695 posts)
2. It Isn't Only the Kavanaugh Vote That Will Doom Collins
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:11 AM
Oct 2019

It's all the times she "had concerns" but in the end went along with whatever garbage Trump and the GOP was selling.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

RockRaven

(14,898 posts)
9. Good, but also totally insufficient to recompense the American people for the damage caused...
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:34 AM
Oct 2019

There is no way for this to be made right, no matter what price she pays...

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,075 posts)
16. +1...
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 02:09 AM
Oct 2019

... and she has her investment banker new hubby. She isn't going to starve or worry about her next trip to the grocery store.

Xolodno

(6,383 posts)
12. $50 bucks says...
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:54 AM
Oct 2019

...she's wishing for a "do-over".

I recollect that she blurted out after a closed door meeting that "K" considered reproductive rights "settled law". Probably thought, this would be your usual "hem and haw" confirmation and everyone would forget about it. Then.....all the other shit came out. Whoops, sometimes telephoning it in doesn't work.

ramen

(788 posts)
14. Couldn't happen to a nicer person [THISISSATIRE]
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 01:27 AM
Oct 2019

She is the worst of the self-assessed 'independent / moderate' wing of the republican party. What a sham.. to drag one's feet until the exactly politically expedient moment is not what moderate-ness is, as far as I have been taught.

So, fuck you, Senator, and fuck the horse you'll ride out on. And it is a proper goddamn shame that it took putting the human rights of women in possibly permanent jeopardy to have done so.

ramen

(788 posts)
28. Good point. Out-horse, please disregard, and accept my apologies,
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 09:50 AM
Oct 2019

but that other horse that rode in with Collins can go straight to hell.

lark

(23,061 posts)
25. Good! Ms. Pro Rape for personal and party profit should be thrown out on her ear.
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:56 AM
Oct 2019

She should then be shunned for her utter treachery and hypocritcal, self-serving whiney lies.

BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
31. I'm having an ugly day, and you just made it a little better.
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:55 PM
Oct 2019

I actually had to grin when I read the subject line of your op. . . I particularly LOATHE Susan Collins.

kwolf68

(7,365 posts)
34. GOOD
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 06:53 PM
Oct 2019

As it should be, his tirade at the hearings showed at the VERY least he lacked judicial temperament. PERIOD. That's just what we saw. Oh there is also the other "thing" as well.
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