By focusing on impeachment polling, Trump picks the wrong fight

[babylonsister]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/focusing-impeachment-polling-trump-picks-the-wrong-fight

By focusing on impeachment polling, Trump picks the wrong fight
11/27/19 12:40 PM
By Steve Benen

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Putting aside the oddity of hearing a presidential crowd chant a profanity, Trump seems almost desperate for people to believe impeachment is unpopular. Maybe he believes it, maybe he hopes Democrats will change direction if they fear a backlash, or maybe the president thinks he can make a falsehood true by simply asserting it, over and over again.

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George Conway yesterday flagged a Gallup poll from late July 1974, released just 11 days before Richard Nixon was forced to announce he would resign in disgrace. The survey found at the time that 46% of Americans wanted to see the corrupt Republican removed from office.

More than 45 years later, CNN released a poll this week that found 50% of Americans want to see Trump impeached and removed from office.

When was the last time half the country wanted to see a sitting president impeached and removed from office? Pretty much never. Since the dawn of modern American polling, this is the first time.

Trump may find solace in the fact that support for polling isn’t already higher, but the news is far less encouraging than he seems to realize: public support for his ouster is extraordinary from a historical perspective.

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[dawg day]

2. I saw that 60% of women were for impeachment

Trump hasn't learned that lesson... women lead. He can't win with just a majority of white men.

[Hugin]

3. K-n-R n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Been Thinking The Same

DOLTUS got 44% of the roughly 60% who voted.
Approval is <40%.
Now, 50% want him gone, and they think that's a good sign?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. ITTMF