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Number of Americans wanting to take the vaccine has DOUBLED to nearly half in two months, poll finds
In a new poll, 46% of U.S. adults said they want to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible, an increase from 24% in October
Meanwhile, 32% said they want to wait and 20% said they would never take it, which are drops of 45% and 22%, respectively, from the last poll
Two-thirds said they are not ready to get the jab because they don t believe it is safe while 14% said they never take vaccines of any kind
Sixty-seven percent of Democrats said they want a shoot as soon as it is available to them compared to 35% of Republicans
reason, the libertarian monthly magazine. and brett stevens, an op-ed columnist with the new york times. peter, i have to go to you first, because you called kavanaugh a spectacular pick. why? well, because i think that he has intellectual and moral integrity. his opinions are outstanding. i ll give donald trump credit, he picked someone who is the antithesis of himself. intellectually and morally outstanding. i knew brett in the white house. he was staff secretary. before that, he worked in the legal counsel s office. he s meticulous. he s calm. he s conservative. he s reliable. everybody who worked with brett had a very, very high opinion of him. so i really do think he s a spectacular pick. i am a fierce critic of donald trump but i m capable of saying when he does something right. i think in this case, he did
elena kagan should be confirmed 100-0. if you have a well-qualified judge in the broad mainstream of the american movement, doesn t have any moral disqualifiers, you should go back to the tradition we had as recently as sandra day o connor. look, a, democrats are going to lose on this issue, and it s going to make them seem extreme and petty. there s a lot of issues there s a lot. immigration is one of them. foreign policy is another. economic policy is a third. a lot of issues where democrats can win election bus they re not going to win it on this one. they re just going to remind conservatives and independent voters that maybe the democrats are too far to the left for their taste and it s actually going to help donald trump in the election. if they make a federal case or if they try to die on this hill, it s going to help them, republicans, in the midterm. if this is such a strong pick, what does this mean for president trump s legacy? this is the thing that
back and let the legislative process on such a big thing which affects so many people s lives, the judicial branch shouldn t be getting involved in that right away. we should wait back and defer to the legislative and political process. this speaks to temperament. this is a much more john roberts approach than it is a scalia approach. it is saying we shouldn t jump into something. we should defer to the majorities. that isn t that i think could have some implications on all kinds of things. including his potential reaction to roe v. wade. he said specifically roe is the law of the land. that it was reaffirmed in the casey case, casey versus planned parenthood. conservative judges believe in originalism but also faint-hearted originalism. a great deal of deference to staredecisis. i think it is unreasonable to