The impeachment hearings haven’t changed public opinion. This explains why.

For five weeks, the House of Representatives has heard public testimony about President Trump’s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. This week, the House is expected to vote on two articles of impeachment based on that testimony.

Democrats hoped the hearings would increase public support for impeachment, but polling averages and daily tracking polls suggest public opinion is roughly the same as when House Intelligence Committee hearings began in November. …

But immobile public opinion is hardly surprising. Three factors, in particular, made shifting it extremely difficult. CONT.

Michael Tesler (UC Irvine), Monkey Cage