Statistically Speaking : Moral Outcry

Statistically Speaking

By Matt Lockett • July 19, 2010 08:41 AM

Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary Committee will cast its votes for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

At the outset of her hearings polling revealed that 81% of Americans had never heard of Elena Kagan. Gallup conducted a routine survey before and after the hearings asking the following question:

For those paying attention Kagan could be the first confirmed nominee in recent history whose nomination was backed by less than a majority of Americans in the final poll before the Senate confirmation vote. What might the above numbers indicate? Gallup reports that:

Typically, support for nominees does not change much after their hearings. Instead, Gallup usually finds increases in the percentage of Americans opposed and decreases in the percentage with no opinion. The percentage without an opinion on the Kagan nomination was the same before and after her hearings, which may indicate these were not widely followed by the average American. (emphasis added)
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The Senate is poised to vote on a candidate whose history reveals extreme political activism in the areas of Partial-Birth Abortion and human cloning. With no prior judicial experience we have no reason to believe that Kagan will suddenly become impartial. Ranking Minority Leader Sessions has been presented with a comprehensive report (here) regarding Kagan's testimony during the hearings that appears rather incriminating. Sessions has said a filibuster of this vote is not out of the question. What happens next with this nominee is of the utmost importance to the few that are watching. I make no accusations about apathy, but the Gallup analysis grieves me by what it implies.

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Matt is a husband and proud father of four children. He's a full-time missionary serving as the Director of Bound4LIFE and the Justice House of Prayer DC. Formerly he had a career in advertising and marketing. Periodically he really wishes he had paid more attention in Government class.

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Christina Martin is the director of Bound4Life Atlanta and an intercessory missionary at the International House of Prayer Atlanta. For the past 4 years Christina has given herself to the occupation of intercession. It’s her full time job to stand before heaven and earth, God and man, asking for mercy and crying out for truth. She prays, God hears, He moves, She is happy.

Christina is committed to fighting for the unborn. She feels for them because she herself had an appointment to die. Literally. 28 years ago her mother was sitting in a hospital room, waiting for the abortion doctor to call her into his office. An elderly black janitor saw her mom crying and asked her one question “Do you want to have this baby”? Her mom said yes, and the rest was history. She walked out of that clinic with hope in her heart and Christina still safely in her womb.

While in D.C God gave Christina a burden for the African-American community. She was shocked to find out how her race has been targeted by Planned Parenthood from the start of their organization. Christina is convinced she will see Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion end in her lifetime.
Ian Kelly is the "arm chair pundit" at Moral Outcry. He has worked full time for Bound4LIFE since 2007. His other responsibilities include local chapter development and new media communications. Besides being a political junkie, he enjoys history, sci-fi, super heroes and grilling.
Jess Clark divides her time between writing, breaking up fights over Buzz Lightyear, and traveling with a missionary rock and roll band. She and her husband Richy are the parents of 3 small-ish children and are in the process of adopting a 4th.
Kaitlin comes from a family with a long history of pro-life activism having had to bail her father out of jail more than 50 times for efforts to protect the unborn and free speech. She's only been arrested herself on two occasions, but that's enough for street cred. Kaitlin captures the voice of a young generation desperately trying to reconcile Biblical truths with practical application in culture. In fact, she IS the voice of Bound4LIFE videos like "The Numbers Don't Lie" and "Houston, Now Is The Time."
Matt is a husband and proud father of four children. He's a full-time missionary serving as the Director of Bound4LIFE and the Justice House of Prayer DC. Formerly he had a career in advertising and marketing. Periodically he really wishes he had paid more attention in Government class.
Susan Tyrrel is active in Bound4LIFE and works with prayer ministries. She has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University, and uses her academic skills both inside and outside academia. Currently, she is writing a book on Christian community.
Tiffani Edwards works with a pregnancy resource center in Arizona and is in leadership over the Phoenix House of Prayer. Before living in AZ she was on staff with the Justice House of Prayer in Washington, D.C. for almost 4 years. It was while being in D.C. that her passion for governmental intercession and the ending of abortion was birthed.

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