America Opposes Nuclear Option

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll out today [full results here in PDF form] suggests that Americans are strongly opposed to the deployment of the nuclear option to change the rules of the Senate and confirm Bush judicial nominees. Sixty-six percent of 1,007 randomly selected adults interviewed by telephone April 21-24 said they oppose a change in Senate rules; 26% said they would support the nuclear option, and 8% had no opinion. The poll's margin of error is +/- 3%.

According to a WP article by Richard Morin and Dan Balz, nearly half of Republican respondents said they oppose the nuclear option (I knew we weren't alone!), along with eighty percent of Democrats and seventy percent of independents (wow). There is much more data on the nuclear option and other questions from the poll available in the PDF linked above.

Let's have a compromise, and end this madness.