Sotomayor confirmation fight may fizzle, not sizzle

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"Barring shock revelations, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is likely to win easy Senate confirmation and become the first Hispanic to sit on the US Supreme Court, experts said Wednesday.

"Unless there's something that comes out that?s very much out of the ordinary, this is likely to be a smooth confirmation if Republicans are smart politically," said John Ullyot, a Republican strategist who served seven years as a senior Senate staffer.

President Barack Obama's Republican critics have -- so far -- shown only a meager appetite for a fight. Indeed the outcome may already be written because Democrats have the 60 votes needed to push the nomination through.

And Republicans worry that overly hostile questioning could further hurt the party with Hispanic voters, who went 67 percent to Obama and 31 percent to his Republican rival, Senator John McCain, in the 2008 White House race.

"Politically, it's better to conserve our powder and live to fight another day and not pick a fight that a) we know we can't win, because we don't have the votes and b) could really hurt us politically," Ullyot told AFP."

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Finally, it's the Repubs who have to keep their powder dry, & I hope they have to for many years.