… Congressional elections expert Gary Jacobson of UC San Diego concluded at the time that “the results of the 1998 elections are in no way extraordinary. . . . [they] are about what we would expect if no one had ever heard of Monica Lewinsky.”
If Clinton’s impeachment didn’t really matter much in the 1998 elections (Washington lore aside), there’s little reason to believe that a potential impeachment of Donald Trump will be decisive in 2020. CONT.
David A. Hopkins, Boston College