There have been two serious efforts in the past half-century to impeach and remove a U.S. president from office. The first, which ended in 1974, led to the resignation of its target—President Richard Nixon. The second, which began in 1998 against President Bill Clinton, led to the resignation of the […] Read more »
Emerging 2020 dynamics: Combined data set
Democracy Corps has conducted two national polls in July and September to create a data base large enough to talk about different segments of the Republican Party, but it also provides us with a deep look at the emerging presidential race. (The data base includes 2,800 interviews.) We are also […] Read more »
The Risks of Impeachment for House Democrats
There’s an awful lot we don’t know yet: how public opinion will respond to the declassified whistleblower report, how many months an impeachment inquiry could take, what other wrongdoing it could reveal, and whether Dems will ultimately have 218 votes to pass articles of impeachment (at 235 seats, they can […] Read more »
Impeachment Is Important — But Don’t Expect It to Matter Much in 2020
… Congressional elections expert Gary Jacobson of UC San Diego concluded at the time that “the results of the 1998 elections are in no way extraordinary. . . . [they] are about what we would expect if no one had ever heard of Monica Lewinsky.” If Clinton’s impeachment didn’t really […] Read more »
‘Everything You’re Seeing Is Deception’: How Right-Wing Media Talks About Impeachment
… With the president facing an impeachment inquiry, and a whistle-blower report made public Thursday that raised new questions about whether he tried to cover up his efforts to enlist Ukraine’s help in discrediting a political rival, allies of the White House in the pro-Trump media wasted no time constructing […] Read more »
Will Impeachment Reshape the 2020 Race?
… We are too early into the impeachment process to have any real idea of where it’s landing with voters. I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in any polling on impeachment that comes out this week. I understand the appetite to have data to prove/disprove one’s theory that this […] Read more »