Surveys derive meaning from comparisons across time and space. With so little to go by, drawing conclusions about impeachments is difficult. If there’s one overriding lesson from polling in our two previous cases it’s that sometimes impeachment inflicts damage and sometimes it doesn’t. While perceptions of some aspects of Bill […] Read more »
Politics with Amy Walter: Quid Pro Quo My God
This week, new information about President Trump’s interactions with foreign governments have rattled Washington, D.C. While the White House works on beating back the impeachment inquiry, members of Congress are home in their districts checking in with constituents. This task might prove difficult for those representing districts that have supported […] Read more »
Trump Is in Trouble
… Things are not going well for Trump. He is facing a political crisis unlike any of his presidency. And his continual escalation of the situation is a sign of weakness not strength. The situation is not guaranteed to end well, it’s true. (I define “end well” as a definitive […] Read more »
Trump’s impeachment polling is historically unprecedented
The poll numbers are in on impeachment, and it’s not good news for President Donald Trump. A clear plurality of Americans approve of the House’s impeachment inquiry into Trump, and they are split on whether they want to impeach and remove him from office. Americans are more eager to impeach […] Read more »
This Week in Impeachment: Does Trump Need a Good Strategy?
Over the two weeks or so since the impeachment of Donald Trump became likely, a series of news articles has chronicled Trump’s strategic and tactical response to his new predicament. Anyone wondering whether Trump would adopt Bill Clinton’s playbook from 1998—acknowledge impeachment as little as possible in public; portray yourself […] Read more »
Clinton’s impeachment barely dented his public support, and it turned off many Americans
The U.S. House’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s interactions with the president of Ukraine comes more than two decades after the last presidential impeachment crisis – the one that engulfed President Bill Clinton in 1998 and early 1999. The circumstances – factual, political and societal – were very different […] Read more »