President Donald Trump, during a meeting in the cabinet room at the White House, Washington, Nov. 22, 2019. AP/Susan Walsh Lee McIntyre, Boston University While watching the House impeachment hearings, I realized my two decades of research into why people ignore, reject or deny science had a political parallel. From […] Read more »
The unexciting reality of impeachment: Very few minds have been changed
… This idea that the Democratic push to impeach Trump is starting to buckle has been at the center of conservative media for days. Trump himself touted poll numbers suggesting that Americans were turning against the idea — poll numbers that, by all appearances, he pulled from thin air. … […] Read more »
Former Clinton strategist Mark Penn counsels President Trump on impeachment
As President Trump’s White House battles impeachment, he turned to a familiar face last week: Mark Penn, one of President Bill Clinton’s top strategists. Penn visited the Oval Office for more than an hour last Monday, three people familiar with the meeting said, and provided polling data and impeachment advice […] Read more »
CNN Poll: No change in views on impeachment after public hearings
After five days of public hearings in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, public opinion over whether the President ought to be impeached and removed from office remains exactly the same as it was in October, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Half of Americans say […] Read more »
Plenty Of People Are Persuadable On Impeachment
The impeachment hearings have been making headlines and drawing big ratings. We’ll soon see whether the blitz of testimony has also had an impact on whether Americans think President Trump committed an impeachable offense when we reinterview our panel of voters, who we’ve partnered with Ipsos to survey repeatedly over […] Read more »
A Very FiveThirtyEight Thanksgiving
After five days of testimony, the House’s public impeachment hearings are over for now. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the team takes stock of what we learned and the effect of the hearings on public opinion. Also, the crew digs into the data to see if there […] Read more »