The only thing less reliable than the media’s ability to predict presidential nominees months in advance of the first primary votes may be the infamous question “Did it move the needle?” …
It is not as if we lack for credible polling, which are a wee bit more accurate than most reporters’ “feelings” about how America, in all its diversity, is perceiving the hearings in real time. ABC News reports, “An overwhelming 70% of Americans think President Donald Trump’s request to a foreign leader to investigate his political rival, which sits at the heart of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, was wrong, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.” …
The most notable number of the ABC News/Ipsos poll, though, may be the 25 percent of Americans who think Trump did nothing wrong. That’s the Trump base/Fox News audience, pared down to the nub. And it turns out the number of dead-enders is comparatively small. Those are the people for whom the needle never moves. CONT.
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Recent polls: President Trump and impeachment