An NPR-Marist poll last week found that the Democrats’ “enthusiasm gap” has all but evaporated in the heat of the confirmation battle.

Republican enthusiasm has surged by 12 percentage points since July, the survey found, leaving the two parties statistically tied.

GOP turnout could hinge in large part on a contingent that could be called the “Mama Bears” — women who defend Kavanaugh and fear their sons could fall victim to unfounded allegations in the #MeToo age.

The allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh have riled women nationwide — but their anger, it turns out, goes both ways.

A poll taken after the nation heard Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against Kavanaugh, followed by his impassioned denial, found 55 percent of women opposed his elevation to the Supreme Court, but 37 percent were in favor.

On Staten Island, the Kavanaugh hearings outraged Angie Moore.

“The minute a conservative gets accused, it’s like due process goes out the window,” she said.

In Missouri, where Democrat Claire McCaskill is running for re-election, 47 percent of female voters have told pollsters her opposition to Kavanaugh has turned them against her, while 42 percent approve of her “no” vote.

“We are watching someone be declared guilty without proof,” Kelly Melang of Beech Mountain, NC, told her two teen boys.

“We try our best to raise them to be respectful and honorable,” she added. “But we’ve had to sit them down and tell them, you have to watch your back.”

“I fear for my sons,” said Gayle Chasen of Staten Island. “I believe in women’s rights, but I also believe in the deviousness of girls. Anybody can come up with something from the past and just make up any kind of story.”

Some moms took to social media to declare they’d bought calendars for their sons to record their daily activities, just in case they have to one day defend themselves as Kavanaugh did.

“It’s so terrifying,” Freeman said of her 15-year-old son. “I’m not giving him a calendar. I’m just thinking about not letting him go anywhere.”

Freeman, who calls herself a Christian conservative, said the controversy has sharply boosted voter enthusiasm in her community before Election Day.

“We were not Trump supporters initially, but we voted for him because of the Supreme Court,” she said. “So we have to make sure our voices are heard.”

Chasen, a Democrat “still on the fence” about the coming elections, is livid about the tactics her party used in its effort to take Kavanaugh down.

“What an embarrassment,” she said, citing the sex scandals of Democrats such as Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer. “How dare they badger this guy?” she asked. “They’re all dirty.”

Rachel DeSantis:

Kellyanne Conway sees no reason as to why newly-confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh should be viewed as “tainted” — and thinks many American women see some version of their loved ones in him.

Conway, a counselor to the president, dropped by “This Week” on ABC Sunday morning to weigh in on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, which came Saturday following a tumultuous investigation into allegations of sexual assault.

“Justice Kavanaugh should not be seen as tainted,” she said. “He should be seen as somebody who went through seven FBI investigations … had answered 1,200 written questions, had produced about a million pages of documents, submitted himself to about 33 or 35 hours of sworn testimony to the Senate, including denying the allegations that were put before him.”

Conway added that she believed Democrats wanted the country to see Kavanaugh as a “gang rapist.”

“A lot of women, including me, in America, looked up and saw a man who was … a political character assassination,” she said. “And also, we looked up and saw in him possibly our husbands, our sons, our cousins, our co-workers, our brothers.”

Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month regarding allegations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford at a house party in high school in the early ’80s. Ford testified as well.

Conway said all involved, including President Trump and the committee, were “very respectful” to Ford in allowing her voice to be heard, and that the scrutiny of Kavanaugh rivals only that of Clarence Thomas, who faced similar allegations in the early ’90s.

“There’s been no Supreme Court justice in the history of this country that’s been more picked apart, with the possible exception of Clarence Thomas, who is in his 27th year on the bench,” Conway said.

“I think what Justice Kavanaugh should do is what he’s done for 12 years on the second-highest court in the land, having authored over 300 judicial opinions. He should go to work. He should do his job.”

Shortly after Ford testified Sept. 27, Conway revealed she, too, was a victim of sexual assault. The Republican had previously told Fox News that Ford “should not be ignored and should not be insulted. She should be heard.”

Even The Atlantic reported this last week:

When many conservative women around the country watched Christine Blasey Ford appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, they didn’t find her testimony compelling or convincing, as many liberals did.

They saw a political farce.

“Honestly, I don’t think I have ever been so angry in all of my adult life,” says Ginger Howard, a Republican national committeewoman from Georgia. “It brings me to the point of tears, it makes me so angry.”