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JUST IN: Vast Majority Of Americans Back SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling

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The polling agency Rasmussen Reports found that nearly two-thirds of all American likely voters surveyed approved of the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action. 65 percent of American likely voters approved of the verdict, with 49 percent strongly approving of the verdict. Only 28 percent of likely US voters disapproved and of those only 16 percent strongly disapproved.

The agency also shared that 52 percent of Democrats that were surveyed approved of the court’s striking down of the practice of race-based preferences in student admission.

By far though the party that most approved of the ruling were members of the Republican party followed by Independents. Republican voters approved of the ruling by an overwhelming 81 percent. Independent voters approved of the court’s stance by 64 percent. This party-by-party breakdown can be seen in the video below.

This survey was conducted from 1,026 such voters over June 1o-12, 2023 through a national telephone and online survey. The margin of error of the survey is 3 percent give or take, with a 95 percent level of confidence. The question asked verbatim was “[t]he Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, ruling that the consideration of race in deciding college admissions violates the Constitution and civil rights laws. Do you approve or disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision?”

This was followed up by a second question inquiring whether voters thought affirmative action programs were a success or not.  Rasmussen Reports posted on social media that “[b]arely one-in-five voters think affirmative action programs have been successful” indicating that most voters thought the practice was a failure at least in part.

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A party-by-party breakdown reveals that Democratic voters were the most likely to say that such programs were entirely successful. But even then only 37 percent of Democrats would agree to such an unqualified statement compared to 13 percent of Republicans, and 11 percent of Independents. Those who describe such programs as unmitigated failures were 35 percent of Republicans, 30 percent of Independents, and 14 percent of Democrats. Most voters thought affirmative action was only partly successful and partly a failure.

While Democratic Attorney Generals like Keith Ellison might try to smack down on the conservative justices (and especially Justice Clarence Thomas) for this ruling, the survey indicates that these politicians should beware lest they alienate a broad section of the country that approves of the verdict.



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