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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe republican senate has given the finger to public opinion.
They are now only concerned with the thoughts of one man.
Constituents don't matter. Good luck with that senators.
Poll: 75% of voters want witnesses for Senate impeachment trial
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/quinnipiac-impeachment-poll-witnesses/index.html
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The republican senate has given the finger to public opinion. (Original Post)
spanone
Jan 2020
OP
That appears to be true. Politicians once feared the power of the voter....now not so much.
spanone
Jan 2020
#7
bdamomma
(63,803 posts)1. This is when
we go into the streets and pressure their asses.
Botany
(70,449 posts)2. Daily Kos poll: 82% of voters say Bolton must testify in impeachment trial
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/28/1914676/-New-poll-82-of-voters-say-Bolton-must-testify-in-impeachment-trial?detail=emaildkre
Donald Trump's lawyers and Senate enablers are doing their damnedest to pretend that former national security adviser John Bolton is just some guy making stuff up in "An unpublished manuscript, that some reporters, maybe, have some idea what it said. If you want to call that evidence." They might want to rethink that considering new polling from Navigator research showing that a whopping 82% of registered voters think Bolton should testify at the impeachment hearing.
What's more, and this is something, that question was included in a poll in the field last week, before the report from Bolton's leaked manuscript which says flat-out that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine for his own political gain. From the toplines of the poll, respondents were asked "If John Bolton has firsthand knowledge of Donald Trump's actions relating to Ukraine and investigating Joe Biden, how important is it for John Bolton to testify in the Senate impeachment trial?" A total of 82% say yes56% say it's very important and 26% say it's somewhat important to hear from him. That includes 70% of Republicans, with 33% saying it's very important and 37% somewhat important.
Donald Trump's lawyers and Senate enablers are doing their damnedest to pretend that former national security adviser John Bolton is just some guy making stuff up in "An unpublished manuscript, that some reporters, maybe, have some idea what it said. If you want to call that evidence." They might want to rethink that considering new polling from Navigator research showing that a whopping 82% of registered voters think Bolton should testify at the impeachment hearing.
What's more, and this is something, that question was included in a poll in the field last week, before the report from Bolton's leaked manuscript which says flat-out that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine for his own political gain. From the toplines of the poll, respondents were asked "If John Bolton has firsthand knowledge of Donald Trump's actions relating to Ukraine and investigating Joe Biden, how important is it for John Bolton to testify in the Senate impeachment trial?" A total of 82% say yes56% say it's very important and 26% say it's somewhat important to hear from him. That includes 70% of Republicans, with 33% saying it's very important and 37% somewhat important.
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NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)3. 95% of Americans wanted stronger background checks after Sandy Hook
and Paul Ryan/Moscow Mitch tanked it. And, the next year, Republicans picked up a net NINE seats in the senate
Botany
(70,449 posts)6. Kind of puts the idea of that we have a democracy to rest.
n/t
Botany
(70,449 posts)5. You can do this "crap" if the elections are dirty.
n/t
spanone
(135,795 posts)7. That appears to be true. Politicians once feared the power of the voter....now not so much.
Botany
(70,449 posts)8. We are at the point where we have to have a landslide in order to win a close election
The exit polls had Hillary Clinton easily winning the 2016 election.
FYI https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212927985
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)9. its the least worse path for GOP to take and totally expected
we have to build on 2018 election results, starting NOW