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Washington PostBy Jon Cohen
Nearly six in 10 Americans say the Senate should vote to confirm U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, but most also want her to answer questions about how she would have decided past cases and to reveal her stand on legal abortion.
At 58 percent in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll, public support for Kagan's confirmation is on par with that for now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor when she was tapped last year as President Obama's first nominee for the court. About a quarter, 24 percent, oppose Kagan; 18 percent express no opinion.
Democrats overwhelmingly back the president's pick, who would become the third woman serving on the nine-justice court, as do independents, by about a 2 to 1 ratio. More than a third of Republicans also support Kagan's confirmation, putting her cross-party support exactly where Sotomayor's was before her hearings started.
Last June, 36 percent of Republicans backed Sotomayor, with 43 percent opposed, precisely where Kagan's Republican numbers are now. But in a poll taken a month later, as the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Sotomayor were wrapping up, GOP opposition to her confirmation spiked to 57 percent.
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