Mark Silva
The Los Angeles Times

There is but one woman on the nine-member Supreme Court, in a nation where women outnumber men at polling places; one black justice, in a nation that shed legalized racial discrimination only decades ago; and there never has been a Hispanic on the high court, in a nation whose fastest growing minority population is Latino.

Yet, with President Obama weighing his first appointment for the high court and promising to pick a nominee with "diversity of experience," Americans apparently are in no rush to even the score for women or minorities on the court.

"There is simply no large groundswell," reports Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, in a survey released this morning by the independent polling institute.

Nearly two-thirds - 64% - of Americans surveyed say it "doesn't matter" to them if the president appoints a woman, according to the results of a Gallup poll conducted last week.

Slightly more of those surveyed - 68% - said it doesn't matter whether Obama names a Hispanic justice. And even more - 74% - said it doesn't matter whether the first African American president appoints a black justice.

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