Impeachment From the American Public’s Perspective

The U.S. Senate is now in the middle of the third impeachment trial in American history — an excellent time to review what we know about public opinion on these historic proceedings. We didn’t have public opinion polling as we now know it in 1868 when Andrew Johnson was in the same position, but we certainly did in 1999 when Bill Clinton was on trial. So, where possible, I’ll compare what we are finding now to what we saw 21 years ago. CONT.

Frank Newport, Gallup

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