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Why You Should Be Skeptical About Polls on Impeaching Trump
Time Magazine ^ | June 7, 2017 | Jack Brewster

Posted on 06/08/2017 4:04:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The numbers are stark: Among registered voters in a Politico/Morning Consult poll at the end of May, 43% want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, up from 38% the week before.

But experts say the polls may mean less than they appear to show.

Three polls by CNN/ORC showed roughly similar numbers of adults—about 30%—wanted to impeach President Clinton in 1998, President Bush in 2006 and President Obama in 2014, even though the presidents were in very different circumstances. And Gallup polls from the Watergate era show a clear majority of Americans didn't support impeaching Nixon and removing him from office until August of 1974—the same month he resigned.

One problem is that pollsters don't regularly ask about impeachment, so it's hard to gauge how many respondents may be using support for impeachment simply as a way of registering disapproval, says NBC/Wall Street Journal pollster Peter Hart.

"What it says to you is basically the electorate doesn't fully understand impeachment," he told TIME. "Their understanding of impeachment is I'm sending a message of disapproval."

Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, notes one other huge problem: the House of Representatives is in charge of deciding whether to begin impeachment proceedings.....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Polls; State and Local; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: impeachment; polls; republicans; trump; trumpstillwinning

1 posted on 06/08/2017 4:04:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They try to take down our constitutionally elected President and there are no ifs or buts - it WILL BE Civil War II.

Trump is the voice of those citizens forgotten and oppressed by a hateful, globalist Marxist establishment for 20 years. You mess with our man and you face the consequence


2 posted on 06/08/2017 4:07:06 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fake Impeachment Polls.


3 posted on 06/08/2017 4:07:17 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because they are BS? The same BS polls that all said Hillary was going to win. Nothing but an idiot would believe a poll out there now.
They are forming opinion, not measuring it.


4 posted on 06/08/2017 4:10:05 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"..Why You Should Be Skeptical About Polls.."

There, fixed it. d:^)

5 posted on 06/08/2017 4:12:19 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But experts say the polls may mean less than they appear to show.

These are the same "experts" that predicted a Hillary win. They rattle on about what they do not know. Screw these pollsters.

6 posted on 06/08/2017 4:18:23 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; NohSpinZone
While Slime and the rest of the blinded MSM blabs on about Russia and impeaching President Trump, he is doing incredible things each day.

While They Obsessed Over Trump’s Scandals, He’s Fundamentally Changed The Country

HuffPo ^ | Sam Stein

Posted on 6/6/2017, 2:21:26 PM by NohSpinZone

This is a defining feature of the Trump administration: While scandal and squabble, palace intrigue and provocative tweets suck much of the oxygen out of the room; and leave the impression of mass government disfunction; a wide array of fundamentally Trump-minded reform is taking place.

(http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3558657/posts)

7 posted on 06/08/2017 4:23:15 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (120+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Covfefe President Trump for this great reality, each day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Demonrats are now grasping at straws, trying to keep the fire burning.


8 posted on 06/08/2017 4:26:25 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is the kind of guy that makes up runs polls.


9 posted on 06/08/2017 4:29:26 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Polls Are Always Right!

! !

HISTORY
PROVES
IT!

</sarcasm>




10 posted on 06/08/2017 4:36:17 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whom did they ask — a bunch of illegal aliens?


11 posted on 06/08/2017 4:36:45 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I doubt the zombies polled for these surveys even know what “impeach” means. They think it’s some kind of citrus fruit.


12 posted on 06/08/2017 4:41:31 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: CopperTop

Why? What wrong with Polish people? I like Poles, they’re really great folks! :-)


13 posted on 06/08/2017 4:53:42 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: unixfox

Just like the NBC expert therapy predicted Hilary would win something like 450+ EV. They were all wrong and outside the shrieking leftists on CNN or Vox I see almost no one in day to day life demanding impeach.


14 posted on 06/08/2017 5:32:04 PM PDT by matt04
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any poll about Trump or anything he is doing can’t be trusted to be honest.

The election showed that polls were to create a desired result that matched a leftist narrative.... Nothing has changed... Don’t believe a single poll that is taken about Trump or anything he does.

The only legitimate poll number they can’t fake is the Trumps support among his voters.. And every poll shows no buyers remorse what so ever among folks who voted for Trump.. So to believe his approvals or polls about anything he’s done or doing showing him with low support are complete garbage and polls to create a desired headline or narrative. They are all absolute garbage.


15 posted on 06/08/2017 5:55:35 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t believe any Czechs will impeach him, either.


16 posted on 06/09/2017 1:45:44 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?z)
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To: Huskrrrr

The fake fire can still burn.


17 posted on 06/09/2017 1:47:34 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?z)
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