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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 11:02 AM Sep 2019

Voter support for impeachment increasing

September 26, 2019

A new Politico/Morning Consult poll released Thursday afternoon shows that 43 percent of voters believe Congress should start the impeachment process against President Trump, up 7 percentage points from a poll conducted last Friday through Sunday. It was the latest poll showing an uptick in support for impeachment since Trump's Ukraine scandal broke and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she was opening a formal impeachment inquiry ...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/868192/new-politicomorning-consult-poll-finds-voter-support-impeachment-increasing

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Voter support for impeachment increasing (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2019 OP
K & R SunSeeker Sep 2019 #1
Public attitudes on impeachment changing struggle4progress Sep 2019 #2
Lovely. oasis Sep 2019 #3
The first few post-Ukraine polls struggle4progress Sep 2019 #4

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
2. Public attitudes on impeachment changing
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 11:04 AM
Sep 2019

09/27/19 08:00 AM—UPDATED 09/27/19 10:53 AM
By Steve Benen

... for months, no national poll showed proponents of presidential impeachment outnumbering opponents. Yesterday, that changed.

Americans are split, 49%-46%, on whether they approve of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and independents at this point are not on board, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll finds ...

The poll was conducted Wednesday night with live phone interviewers. That was one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry, but before a whistleblower complaint about the president’s call with the Ukrainian leader was released to the public.


... in April, the same NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll asked about Trump’s impeachment and found that opponents easily outnumbered supporters, 53% to 39% ...

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-polls-show-public-attitudes-trump-impeachment-changing

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
4. The first few post-Ukraine polls
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 11:08 AM
Sep 2019

SEP. 27, 2019, AT 6:00 AM
By Dhrumil Mehta

... according to the initial polls at least, public opinion doesn’t seem to have shifted dramatically from where it was following both the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on April 18 and Mueller’s testimony before Congress on July 24. The majority of Americans still do not favor impeachment ... There are several reasons, however, to believe that this picture is incomplete and could change.

... although support for impeaching the president is shy of a majority, polling suggests that a majority of Americans do disapprove of Trump’s actions. A YouGov/Economist poll released Wednesday found that 52 percent of Americans said it is inappropriate for the president to request a foreign government open an investigation into a potential political opponent ... And in that same poll, 62 percent of Americans said that it is inappropriate for the president to threaten withholding foreign aid to a country if it refuses to “take an action which personally benefits the President” ...

... A separate YouGov poll conducted Tuesday found that a majority of Americans may either “strongly” or “somewhat” support impeachment if Trump “suspended military aid to Ukraine in order to incentivize the country’s officials to investigate his political rival” ...

... According to a Marist poll conducted Wednesday, 32 percent of Americans said they weren’t closely following news about the impeachment inquiry. And according to the YouGov/HuffPost poll, when asked if they found the allegation that Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Biden’s son credible, 42 percent of respondents said that they weren’t sure or hadn’t heard enough to say ...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-first-few-post-ukraine-polls-say-about-impeachment/

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