I’ll admit that I’m a bit flummoxed by the current political moment. I like to look at numbers, to get some sense of where things are by looking at where they’ve been and what happened when they were there before. So the current push to consider impeaching President Trump is […] Read more »
Impeachment Support Up Slightly But Trump Job Rating Steady
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has remained steady in the wake of an official impeachment inquiry launched last week, although support for impeachment has ticked up slightly. In a two year Monmouth University Poll trend on impeachment opinion the current findings are not out of line with some prior results. […] Read more »
Impeachment in the Global Context
The last ten days have been mind-boggling, with the emergence of new political facts at light speed. Consider that we went from vague references, to a whistleblower complaint, to the launch of an impeachment inquiry, to the release of a “transcript” of the President’s conversation with the Ukrainian president, to […] Read more »
These are the Republicans who are against Trump and for impeachment
President Donald Trump is staring down possible impeachment. Fortunately for him, his base of very conservative Republicans in the Senate likely would save him from being removed from office. But CNN/SSRS polling in September suggests that Trump should be more worried about a part of the Republican Party that gets […] Read more »
Trump’s approval rating drops to low, but Americans still oppose impeachment, survey finds
Americans by a narrow margin oppose impeachment hearings to remove President Donald Trump from office, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey. But the CNBC poll of 800 Americans nationwide conducted last week found a significant shift where fewer Americans are opposed to impeachment. It also found a large […] Read more »
Why Trump’s impeachment inquiry will be more divisive than Nixon/Clinton
If impeachment of the president is always a match, today it is dropping into a much larger pool of gasoline than it did under President Richard Nixon or even President Bill Clinton. After years of steadily rising partisan conflict, the inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last week may […] Read more »