Yet another poll is out showing that the GOP is on the wrong side of public opinion on the question of whether President Barack Obama should be allowed to exercise his constitutional obligation to fill the seat vacated by the death of the late Antonin Scalia.

How deep is the public opinion hole that the GOP has dug itself? Voters would rather have actor Tom Hanks or Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning choose the next Supreme Court justice than Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Hey, at least the cartoonish former reality TV star manages to edge out actual cartoon character Mickey Mouse as the person voters prefer to select Scalia's replacement.

According to a new national poll Public Policy Polling conducted for the Democratic super PAC Americans United for Change, 56 percent of registered voters want Obama to select the next Supreme Court justice – and that's reasonable given that nominating justices to fill court vacancies is part of the description of the job for which Obama applied back in 2012. He got that job, so it's not unreasonable for Americans to expect him to, you know, do it.

And fully two-thirds of voters think that senators should wait and see who Obama nominates before ruling the nominee out (25 percent favor flat refusal). Again that makes sense – advising and consenting is part of the senators' job description so it seems reasonable to expect them to actually do that.

And this is just in keeping with what other polls have shown since Scalia died last month. Almost as soon as news of his death broke, Republicans in the Senate and beyond were near unanimous in their determination that Obama would not be permitted to exercise his constitutional responsibility to nominate a justice.

None of the GOP front-runners seems to inspire voter confidence. By a margin of 33 percent to 57 percent the voters don't "trust" Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to choose Scalia's replacement – and he's in better shape than fading Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (26-61) or Trump (31-62).

What does it mean for this fall's races? Per the new PPP poll, 50 percent of voters would be less likely to vote for a senator who "refused to confirm a replacement for Justice Scalia this year no matter who it was" while 31 percent would be more likely. That makes sense for the political reasons I've outlined elsewhere, though this requires Democrats to actually capitalize on the opportunity. Voters do not as a general matter vote on process issues and this could fall into that category if the Dems are not able to frame it in a way that makes clear a deadlocked Supreme Court has a direct effect on voters' lives.

And of course this being a PPP poll, they had a little bit of fun. Would voters prefer Trump or Hanks – the ultimate nice-guy everyman actor – to choose Scalia's replacement? They'd prefer Hanks going away, 47-35. Trump or the now-retired Manning? Manning by almost as wide a margin – 45-35; hey, he's got time on his hands, right?

Trump fares better against actor Will Smith (only 40 percent prefer the star of “Men In Black” while 41 percent prefer the hero of the men in white) and pop star Taylor Swift, with whom he evenly splits voter preferences (40 percent apiece). And like I said at the top, voters do prefer real person Trump select the next Supreme Court justice over fictional animated figure Mickey Mouse by a 43-39 margin.

I don't know – I think I'd prefer Mickey. I'd take the actual Goofy over whatever goofball Trump would foist on the court.