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Welcome to the commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday, October 14, 2020.

I am John Poghord, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe

Greenwald, hi, hey, hi John, senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine, and associate

editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah, hi John, we are closing our November 75th anniversary

issue tomorrow. We'll have some stuff online Friday and over the weekend and next week and

there's a lot of good stuff there. So please be on the watch at commentary magazine.com where

we give you a few free reads and then ask you to subscribe. Noah Rothman, you have watched

roughly 2,911 hours of the Amy Coney Barrett hearings. The most interesting piece of data that

I've seen, the only real piece of data that I've seen about this comes from a political

morning consult poll this morning that says that Democrats appear to be shifting in her

direction. 48% of Americans now say that she should be confirmed and Democrats have moved

in her direction by 13 or 14 points over the course of the hearings. So what do you make of it?

Well, we've been seeing that movement over the course of the last couple of weeks even before

the confirmation hearings began. So it's interesting to see that trajectory continue along that

that same path. I think it's probably reinforced. That movement is reinforced by what I've watched

in these hearings. So again, when you watch, you know, whatever it was, probably close to 20 hours

of testimony, it all sort of leads together. So I can't really tell you if there was a moment,

one moment or another moment. What the general sense that I got from watching these things is that

it has generally been a really glorious and boring exploration of policy and judicial philosophy.

What we've been focusing on primarily among Democrats has been and they've been broadcasting

and advertising this for a long time, that they were going to focus on this upcoming

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