Over at the Great Orange Satan β¦
No Democrat in a purple state need worry about voting against Kavanaugh, and new polling in red states suggests that voting against him would actually help red state Democrats. A YouGov poll conducted in battleground states Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, and West Virginia before the hearings and just released show that the overwhelming majority of undecided voters didnβt really care about this vote. In Florida, 80 percent of undecided voters say it wonβt make a difference; Missouri: 76 percent; Indiana: 68 percent; West Virginia: 80 percent; and North Dakota: 80 percent.
However, and this is a big however, in all of those states the Democratic base is tuned into the nomination and cares. Democrats are looking to their Democratic senators to oppose Kavanaugh: